Ndebele
Americannoun
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Ndebeles,
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Ndebele
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Also called Matabele. a member of a Nguni people of the Transvaal and Zimbabwe.
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the Bantu language of these people.
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of Zimbabwe See also Matabele
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the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu grouping of the Niger-Congo family
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The people in the area today are mostly farmers of the Ndebele ethnic group, whose ancestors migrated from the north in several waves starting about 4000 years ago.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024
Sthembiso Ndebele lives in one of the shacks with her three children, including her disabled 10-year-old son, who she said is not coping with the conditions.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024
Mahlangu, who always appears in public in traditional Ndebele clothes and jewellery, said that she intended to carry on working and travelling despite her age.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2020
“Authorities are not comfortable with this subject,” producer Zenzele Ndebele told the screening crowd on Wednesday night.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
I read that more than 90 percent of the Zimbabwean people were called Shona, but that there was another tribe called Ndebele, which I think was pronounced en-duh-BELL-lay.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
Some 1,200 of Nkomo's onetime rebels have deserted the armed forces, returning to Matabeleland, homeland of the Ndebeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
On one side are Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and nearly 6 million members of the Shona tribes; opposing them are Joshua Nkomo, the rival nationalist leader, and the 1.5 million-strong Ndebeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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