Fengu people
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The Fengu or amaMfengu are a group of clans whose ancestors were refugees that fled from the Mfecane in the early- to mid 1800s to seek land and protection from the Xhosa. These refugees were assimila
Photograph of Fengu military leader Veldtman Bikitsha 1891
Fengu settlers circa.1835
The Fengu people, known across southern Africa as skilled gunmen, were invaluable allies of the Cape in its frontier wars.
Fengu village in Cape Town in the 1870s