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This is the umbrella project to which every South African male Progenitor /Stamvader should be added first - ie all first fathers of a line with descendants in SA." A note on the Meaning of the words 'Progenitor,' Stam Vader,' and 'Settler,' as they are used on Geni * A PROGENITOR [PROG] is the start of a bloodline in SA. A Y-PROG is a special PROG who is the first Y chromosome progenit...
Zulu Kings Mageba kaGumede c1667-c1745 Zulu Chief c 1727 – c1745 Ndaba kaMageba Zulu Chief c 1745-1763 Jama kaNdaba c1757-1781 Zulu Chief 1763 -1781 Mkabayi kaJama c1760 – c1840 Daughter Regent Senzagakhona kaJama c1762-1816 Zulu Chief 1781-1816 Shaka kaSenzangakhona c1787-1828 Zulu King 1816 -1828 Dingane kaSenzangakhona c1795-1840 Zulu King 1828-1840
1700 Dlamini chiefdoms move south from Delagoa Bay and settle on land north of the Phongolo River; thereby forming the core of the future Swazi nation. 1767 The Cape frontier is pushed further eastward, beyond the Gamtoos River into the land of the AmaXhosa. Armed confrontations between the AmaXhosa and the Dutch colonists ensue. 1775 The death of Phalo increases the political tensions and st...
Bantu peoples of Southern Africa South Africa’s nine African official languages all fall into the Southern Bantu-Makua subfamily, part of the broad and branching Niger-Congo family of languages. The languages arrived here during the great expansion of Bantu-speaking people from West Africa eastwards and southwards into the rest of the continent. The expansion began in around 3000 BCE and was la...