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
Xhosa people
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The Xhosa people are an ethnic group in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho. They are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa and are native speakers of the isiXhosa language
Fengu people
…of Natalia that were broken up and dispersed by Shaka and his Zulu armies in the Mfecane wars. Most of them fled westwards and settled amongst the Xhosa. After some years of oppression by the Gcaleka Xhosa (who called the Fengu people their "dogs")in the 1820s, they formed an alliance with the Cape…
Xhosa graduates at Zonnebloem College in 1860, Cape Town, Cape Colony
Xhosa village in Eastern Cape.
An illustration of a group of Xhosa people by Thomas Baines (illustrated in 1848).
Xhosa spearman