Why zulus hate xhosas

Goats, sheep and oxen are still slaughtered for weddings, funerals and family celebrations. In February, when Mandela was released from jail after 27 years, his relatives sponsored a traditional feast to thank their Thembu ancestors for watching over him. But, lately, the Mangesis have celebrated marriages with Zulus and people from other ethnic groups.

Time was when Wilson Zitha would have courted his bride by arriving with all the men in his family, singing and dragging several cattle to be offered as a lobola , or dowry. After some negotiation, the wedding celebration would have begun. Traditional stereotypes, such as the belief that Xhosas are manipulative and that Zulus are warlike, remain part of how black South Africans see themselves and each other. It is true that there is something about us Zulus. He covered the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid as well as the ill-fated U.

As national editor, he directed work that won four Pulitzer Prizes. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing, and was a Pulitzer Prize juror in international reporting in and chair of the public service jury in and the international reporting jury in Kraft was born in Kansas City, Mo.

All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. The chiefdom was further weakened when Rarabe, brother of the chief, Gcaleka, challenged his brother's rule and was driven off with his followers. He was succeeded as senior western Xhosa chief by his son Ndlambe and later by Ngqika, his grandson, who took the chieftainship away from his uncle in Two Nguni chiefs started these wars, Zwide of the Ndwandwe kingdom in the north of present-day Zululand the area of KwaZulu-Natal lying north of the Tugela River and Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa kingdom in the south.

Refugees from both armies became new Mfecane tribes "on the march" and swept across the country crushing anyone who came in their path. When the British came to the Eastern Cape, they tried to prevent military invention by adopting a treaty-state system. However, the treaty-state system did not last very long and war soon broke out between the White settlers and the Xhosa tribes.

However, this did not deter the British from annexing the Keiskamma territory, thus setting the scene for yet another war which would eventually escalate into a civil war between Gcaleka, the Xhosa chief and the local Mfengu tribe that lived amongst them. In the wars against the British and colonial troops, two Xhosa chiefs, Sandile and Maqoma, emerged as strong leaders. After both had been defeated, Xhosa resistance crumbled and by the early s, the last of the Nguni chiefdoms had been brought under colonial rule.

However, what really broke the Xhosa nation's resolve was a disaster that occurred in the mid s. A young girl by the name of Nongqause had a vision of the warriors of old rising up from the reeds surrounding a pool into which she was gazing. They had been purified of witchcraft and they encouraged her to tell the Xhosa people to also purify themselves by killing all their cattle, destroying all their grain and not planting any crops.

This action would also help to get rid of the White settlers, since the old warriors themselves would come to drive them away. News of Nongqause's prophecy, spurred on by the preaching of her uncle Mhlakaza, spread among the people like wild fire. In the aftermath, approximately 20 people died of starvation while another 30 were scattered among the white farmers in outlying areas where they sought work for food.

However, despite this disaster and the havoc it wrought on the Xhosa people, Xhosa culture has remained strong. Although their lifestyle has been adapted to the Western traditions, the Xhosa still retain many of their traditions and much of their culture. There followed long years of colonial rule, efforts to create self-ruling independent states during the Apartheid years and finally, independence in when the Government of National Unity under the leadership of Nelson Mandela was born.

What is Xhosa culture? The earliest Xhosa homesteads consisted of a circular frame of poles and young trees bent and bound together in the shape of a beehive and covered from top to bottom with grass. During the early s, traditional construction methods changed and huts were built with circular walls of coated stakes interwoven with branches and having thatched conical roofs. The individual huts that formed a homestead were usually built in a semi-circle around a circular cattle enclosure.

Under the floor of the cattle enclosure, the Xhosas stored maize in bottle-shaped pits. The pits were well plastered and the openings closed with stones to prevent the maize from being spoilt.

Matiwane went back to Natal wafika u Shaka sele efile sekubusa u Dingane. It is Dingane who executed Matiwane. Kunanamhlanje kukho intaba kwa Zulu ekuthiwa kukwa Matiwane, that is where Matiwane was executed I say it again, Amazulu would've never defeated AmaXhosa.

They were too strong to be easily defeated and driven away. These are people who fought Whites who were armed with guns for years and never ran away. Zulu never conquered amampondo they only fought with mpondo people a war that didnt last long. They have nothing in mpondoland nor is there any signs that theyv ever conquered or ruled there.

We have a right to be touched when you say Xhosas are a tribe that come from the Zulu tribe.. And we have never fought namaZulu in Shaka's time, we were fighting the white invaders in Eastern Cape. We are the gate keepers of South Africa, the reason why Zulus and other tribes only encountered whites in the late 's. Thina saqala ukulwa no mlungu in and held on until Shaka only fought amaMpondo up north, hayi thina mabandla ka Phalo You must read up on our history properly and not confuse us with amaMpondo.

The people ur history might be talking about r the tribes who ran from shaka into mpondoland not mpondos running from shaka. IFP is a Zulu nationalist organization whereas the ANC is a general African nationalist organization whose support base may largely be Xhosa speakers because of demographics Xhosas are the second largest language group in South Africa, after Zulus.

Also, there ANC had and still has a major Zulu support base. So there is no Zulu-Xhosa rivalry, or any such thing in South Africa. Stop feeding the youth lies which were mostly formed by people with motives to gain from the great people divided. Hey bhuti I for one have experienced it when we went to a zulu-xhosa wedding in one of the villages in kwa-zulu natal I read this following a Stephen Biko link, quite interesting we white folk aside , black south African folk can fight each other without any help.

Lo bongz ndiqinisekile ngulo ndidla ngomva kwi comments sections ku you tube on similar matters nhe? Hayi nto yakuthi be ndingayazi ba khona umntu otyebe ukogqitha mna ngembali yala mabandla omabini ka phalo. Well I think the most important thing we can agree on is that we are all Nguni,so this perceived animosity between us is a creation of the divide and rule concept that was used by the dutch, English and later on by the afrikaner to weaken us.

Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Post Comment. The Zulu-Xhosa Feud. On March 7, That was centuries ago… After that came colonialism and apartheid that decided to group people according to their tribes. Short Stories , Tale Africa. The deeply ingrained rage and resentment were then turned toward each other. Both the Zulu and Xhosa, as well as other tribes, fought for supremacy in the new democracy.

The result was further separation, creating an environment of violence, rather than one of unity and rebuilding. The ending of apartheid signaled the beginning of what became known as the Bloodless Revolution. The streets ran heavy with the blood of black South Africans, but almost no white blood was shed.

In their fight for supremacy, an uprising of the Zulu and Xhosa, under the guise of official party organizations, created a war. There were riots and fighting in the streets. Thousands died, and bodies blanketed the ground. One Sunday when Trevor Noah was young, Noah, his mother Patricia, and his infant brother got onto a minibus to take them home from church. Minibuses had become popular during apartheid as a homemade solution to the lack of government-provided public transportation for blacks.

Different tribes operated the minibuses, which created turf wars for business. It is worth noting that within the Zulu tribe, Xhosa women were stereotyped as being promiscuous and wild.

Patricia argued with the driver, telling him to mind his own business.