The Mpondo people, or Ama-Mpondo, belong to a kingdom in what is now the Eastern Cape. It was established on the 28th of March 1028 AD when the founder was just 28 years old. The Ama-Mpondo-Nation was
Imfene, a Mpondo Dance Festival, Kennedy Road Shack Settlement, Durban (2008)
The Kingdom of Kush, also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
Mpondo people
…Great Lakes into modern-day South Africa or the race of people coming from Ethiopia and along Zambia down past Eswatini, believed to be under the Great Kingdom of Kush. This is evident from the ruling plant in the coast south-east of Africa and north-west of Madagascar, the marijuana plant. It grows in abundance from…
Kushite heartland, and Kushite Empire of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, c. 700 BC
Megaliths from Nabta Playa displayed in the Aswan Nubian museum
"A-Group" style, Nubian pottery, Musee du Louvre
Kerma bowl, 1700-1550 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston