Bantu-speaking people of South Africa are the majority, ethno-linguistic people of South Africa. They are indigenous southern Africans from Southern Bantu-speaking peoples; whose earliest presence thr
Bantu publication by the apartheid government, February 1959
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), the first democratically elected president of South Africa, a Thembu (Xhosa ethnicity), one of the Bantu-speaking peoples of South Africa
![The composition of the syllables of the words "Xilo" [ʃiːlɔ] "thing" in Xitsonga, "Vhathu" [βaːtʰu] "people" in Tshivenḓa and "Ho tlêtse" [hʊt͜ɬ'ɛːt͜s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Xilo_Vhathu_Ho_tl%C3%AAtse.jpg/500px-Xilo_Vhathu_Ho_tl%C3%AAtse.jpg)
The composition of the syllables of the words "Xilo" [ʃiːlɔ] "thing" in Xitsonga, "Vhathu" [βaːtʰu] "people" in Tshivenḓa and "Ho tlêtse" [hʊt͜ɬ'ɛːt͜s'ɪ] "It is full" in Sesotho, using Ditema syllabary
The Southern Ndebele Esther Mahlangu artist painting on a wall.
Pedi people
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The Pedi or Bapedi - also known as the Northern Sotho, Basotho ba Lebowa, bakgatla ba dithebe, Transvaal Sotho, Marota, or Dikgoshi - are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to South Africa, Botswana,
South Africa in 1885.
A Pedi woman breastfeeding. Alfred Duggan-Cronin. South Africa, early 20th century. The Wellcome Collection, London
King Sekhukhune 1881
Overgrazed Bapedi reserve near Pietersburg, Drakensberg