Sobusa Gula-Ndebele served as Attorney General until December 15, 2007.
He previously served as deputy Attorney-General under Sobusa Gula-Ndebele from 2006 to May 2008 .
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In 1895, Bell traveled to southern Africa and served with the British armed forces that in 1896 suppressed a rising by the Matabele (Ndebele) people.
As the southern groups of Bantu speakers migrated southwards two main groups emerged, the Nguni (Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, Swazi), who occupied the eastern coastal plains, and the Sotho–Tswana who lived on the interior plateau.
Sokwanele (Ndebele for "Enough is Enough"), another name for the Zimbabwe movement
After the missionaries crossed the Limpopo River, Shona chiefs would not welcome the group; instead, the party was forced to go to Bulawayo, the headquarters of King Lobengula of the Ndebele people.
The village grew up around the Inyati mission, which established in 1859 by on land given to Robert Moffat and William Sykes of the London Missionary Society by the Ndebele king, Mzilikazi.
Seizing on this weakness, and a discontent with the British South Africa Company, the Ndebele revolted during March 1896 in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First War of Independence, the First Chimurenga, but it is better known to most of the world as the Second Matabele War.
Msika dismissed Mugabe's past apology for the 1987 Gukurahundi killings, which was condemned internationally for the violence it unleashed on mainly rural Ndebele, at a rally in October 2006 in Bulawayo.
From then, he progressed away from his former Western influences, and his popularity steadily grew especially in Ndebele speaking Matebeleland and Bulawayo in particular.
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Lovemore "Majaivana" Tshuma (born 1954), commonly known as Lovemore Majaivana is a Zimbabwean musician, arguably the most popular Ndebele singer, and by far the most prominent to have come out of Bulawayo.
For a brief period, Rhodesia reverted to the status of British colony, but in early 1980, elections were held and the ZANU party, led by the Shona independence hero Robert Mugabe, defeated the popular Ndebele candidate Joshua Nkomo and solidified their rule over the independent nation of Zimbabwe.
After reaching Bulawayo, Forbes received a tip about the whereabouts of the Ndebele King.
Radio Voice of the People (Radio VOP) is a radio station in Zimbabwe which broadcasts to the southern African region in English, Shona and Ndebele in the mornings and evenings on 9895 kHz and 7120 kHz on the 41-meter band respectively during the European summer and on higher frequencies thereafter.
There is also another, separate dialect called Northern Ndebele or Matabele spoken in Zimbabwe and Botswana – see Sindebele language.
It incorporates all of South Africa's 11 national languages, including Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana and Venda.