The Thembu (Xhosa: AbaThembu) are a Xhosa Nation who inhabited the Kingdom of Thembuland. They were established around the 16th century as one of the Xhosa...

Faku was attacked by Zulu-King Shaka Ka-Senzakhona, he appealed to the Thembu King Ngubengcuka and the Xhosa King Hintsa for help with defeating the Zulu-king...

Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. A Xhosa, Mandela was born into the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, South Africa. He studied law at the University of...

a child and adolescent in South Africa and being connected to the royal Thembu dynasty. His Xhosa birth name was Rolihlahla, which is loosely translated...

Ngubengcuka of the Thembu nation of Southern African Xhosas. Be that as it may, he was - and his fellow members of the Mandela branch of the Thembus' ruling royal...

Transkei region. Like other separate Xhosa-speaking kingdoms such as Aba-Thembu and Ama-Mpondo, they speak Xhosa and are at times[citation needed][clarification...

the abaThembu. Another daughter Nowisile became the wife of Chief Falo Mgudlwa of the amaJumba Thembu and the adoptive mother of the future Thembu national...

English, Afrikaans Religion Christianity, Modimo Related ethnic groups Pedi people, Tswana people and Lozi people, San people, Phuthi people, Thembu people...

province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the abaThembu. It was formerly also known as "Tamboekieland" or "Tambookieland". The area...

overlooked them, the strikers (among the main organisers was a 42-year-old, Thembu-origin Nelson Mandela) carried out their threats. The government countered...

Linares and Duquende often incorporate overtones. [citation needed] Some Thembu Xhosa women of South Africa have a low, rhythmic style of throat-singing...

King Ngubengcuka of abaThembu kingdom and King Hintsa of the amaXhosa kingdom. They were assimilated into the amaMpondo, abaThembu and amaXhosa cultural...

king of the abaThembu people of South Africa since the late 1980s to present day. Dalindyebo is the son of the previous king of the AbaThembu King Sabata...

Christianity (Zionist Churches, Catholic), Swazi religion Related ethnic groups Xhosa, Hlubi, Zulu, Ndebele, Sotho, Tsonga. Pedi, Phuthi people, Thembu people...

involved himself in Thembu and Transkei politics. Made paramount chief of the "Emigrant Thembus", a breakaway and sub-group to the Thembus, Mathanzima's support...

the descendants of his cadet branch of the Thembu royal family remain ineligible to succeed to the Thembu throne, which is itself one of the several traditional...

Vusani, (c. 1790 – 10 August[citation needed] 1830) was the king of the abaThembu, in the eastern-southern part of Xhosaland (Eastern Cape). Ngubengcuka succeeded...

Religion Christianity, Zulu religion Related ethnic groups Xhosa, Swazi, Hlubi, Thembu people, Southern Ndebele, Northern Ndebele and Ngoni, San people...

father Nelson was a direct descendant of the holders of the kingship of the Thembu people and was himself the heir of the chieftaincy of Mvezo. His grandson...

newly formed Democratic Progressive Party, Sabata Dalindyebo, king of the Thembu people and vocal opponent of apartheid, for violating the dignity and injuring...

buffer-zone, in response to reported tensions between Mpondo and neighbouring Thembu groups, and in 1875 a magistrate's office was opened. The first magistrate...

a Xhosa traditional leader and former politician. He is a member of the Thembu royal family and represented the United Democratic Movement (UDM) in the...

chief tribe engaged in the war, assisted by portions of the Ndlambe and the Thembu. The Xhosa forces were greater in number, and some of them had by this time...

agro-pastoralists and established sub-federations under AmaXhosa kingdom, which are (AbaThembu, AmaMpondo, and AmaMpondomise) in the 5th century AD.The recent homeland...

of KwaZulu-Natal in the north. It is the traditional home of the Xhosa, Thembu people, and the Mpondo people, and the birthplace of many prominent South...

Nelson, was a direct descendant of the holders of the kingship of the Thembu people and was himself the heir to the chieftaincy of Mvezo. His grandson...

December at the Thembu Great Place near Qunu, to Chief Mfundo Bovulengwa Mtirara, born 25 March 1973, Acting Deputy Paramount Chief of the Thembu from 2000...

Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo(1928–1986) was the ruler of the Thembu Kingdom. He was the son of Jongilizwe Sampu Dalindyebo. His rule was marked by conflict...

Nelson Mandela was a Xhosa and was a member of the royal family of the Thembu tribe...

African President Nelson Mandela, who belonged to a cadet branch of the Thembu dynasty which reigns as paramount chiefs in the Transkei. She wed Sobhuza's...