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unusual facts about Tsonga people


Tsonga

Tsonga people, a large group of people living mainly in southern Mozambique


Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt

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

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.


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Giyani

The Swiss Missionaries did mission work amongst the Tsonga people in the Hlanganani district of the former Gazankulu homeland.

Tiyani

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.

Valdezia

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.

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 .