The Swiss Missionaries did mission work amongst the Tsonga people in the Hlanganani district of the former Gazankulu homeland.
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Later, the Swiss missionaries expanded its mission work to a large Tsonga settlement at Masana in Bushbuckridge and at Shiluvana settlement near Tzaneen.
The idea behind Hlanganani was to unite both the Tsonga and Venda speakers who were separated by the Apartheid ideology in 1948 and was used as a resistance against Apartheid rule.
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Hlanganani is an amalgamation of large various villages which is situated in the north western portion of the former Tsonga homeland of Gazankulu, South Africa.
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Before the introduction of Apartheid in 1948, both the Tsonga and the Venda people lived together peacefully, that peace was disturbed when Apartheid was introduced by the Nationalist Party after 1948, apartheid ideology meant that both the Venda and Tsonga speakers had to be permanently separated from each other.
Stevenson-Hamilton was dubbed “Skukuza” by the Tsonga Shangaans who lived on the reserve, meaning ‘the man who has turned everything upside down’ or ‘the man who swept clean’.
Officially the place is known as Tiyani, but the area is popularly known (by both the Venda and Shangaan people) as Magoro and was named after a Venda Chief Magoro, who occupied the area before the Tsonga people arrived.
Tsonga people, a large group of people living mainly in southern Mozambique
Chief Nhjakanhjaka, who was a headman of Spelenkon, exercised authority over thousands of Tsonga refugees, but Joao Albasini, a Portuguese adventurer of 'mixed blood' or half caste, also contested for power over the control of the thousands of Tsonga refugees in the Spelenkon district, at the end, Chief Nhjakanhjaka was undermined when Joao Albasini declared himself a paramount chief of all Tsonga people in the whole Spelenkon district .
The estimated 4 million Makua are the largest ethnic group of the country and are dominant in the northern part of the country — the Sena and Shona (mostly Ndau) are prominent in the Zambezi valley, and the Shangaan (Tsonga) dominate in southern Mozambique.
The Tembe Elephant Park, run by Chief Israel Tembe, is a living history that testify to the rich Tsonga history of this wetland park.
She conducted pioneering research in Southern Africa (among the Venda, Tsonga, Shona, Lozi, Bushmen), Central (among the Gbaya) and Kenya (among the Maasai, Samburu, El Molo, Rendille and unidentified hominids), which led her to develop the project "Totemic Geography of Africa "(TGA).
Kosi bay is an ancient home of the Tsonga people and their primitive fish traps, the history of Vatsonga people on this land dates back some 800 years ago, Kosi bay and Maputo bay are one land and they belong to the Tsonga people.
It incorporates all of South Africa's 11 national languages, including Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana and Venda.
Historically, the natural home of the Tsonga people is in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park in Northern KwaZulu Natal stretching north into Maputo and in today's Kruger National Park.
Ziziphus mucronata, known as the Buffalo Thorn, "blinkblaar-wag-'n-bietjie" in Afrikaans and "mphasamhala" in Tsonga, is a species in the Rhamnaceae family.