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... land and homesteads ' Today the old system has been modified . With the stabilization of tribal and location boundaries and the increase in population causing pressure on the land ( the population density is estimated at 82 persons per ...
... land and homesteads ' Today the old system has been modified . With the stabilization of tribal and location boundaries and the increase in population causing pressure on the land ( the population density is estimated at 82 persons per ...
Page 231
... land was plentiful , a man could find land almost anywhere he chose . But today things are different . The people have increased ( a matter of pride ) but the land is small ( a matter of regret ) . Neither headman nor chief any more ...
... land was plentiful , a man could find land almost anywhere he chose . But today things are different . The people have increased ( a matter of pride ) but the land is small ( a matter of regret ) . Neither headman nor chief any more ...
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... LAND The idea of ownership of land was foreign to the Cape Nguni . Everyone was entitled to cultivate a portion , and the chief would settle disputes . This is still the case over a large area of the present Transkei and Ciskei , but in ...
... LAND The idea of ownership of land was foreign to the Cape Nguni . Everyone was entitled to cultivate a portion , and the chief would settle disputes . This is still the case over a large area of the present Transkei and Ciskei , but in ...
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According Alberti animals assegai Bantu baskets basketwork beads beadwork beer Bhaca Bizana blade Bomvana Caffre calabash Cape Nguni Cape Town Cape tribes cattle cattle-kraal chief Ciskei clay club coiled colour confirmed corn diameter Döhne door eene eenen Elliotdale 1948 European fence Fingo fire fire-sticks fish Fritsch grain grass grinding-stones Hammond-Tooke hide Hlubi homestead horn Hottentots Hunter hunting iron isando Kaffir knob knobkerries kraal London Lusikisiki Lusikisiki 1948 maize Makalima milk milk-sack mortars Mp Xes Mpondo Mpondomise Mt Ayliff Museum natives ochre okanye PLATE poles Pondoland pots pottery roof rope round sedge sewn shape Shaw shield skin Smith sneezewood Soga Sotho South Africa spade spear spoon Stavenisse stick stone thatch Thembu thong Transkei trap Umtata utensils wall weapons Willowvale Willowvale 1948 women wood wooden wordt Xes Bh Xesibe Xhosa Zoll