A Little bit of History- "SaaBhaca siMfenguza"

Those known as amaBaca (Refugees) namaMfengu (Wanderers), a bantu people who hail from north east/west/central Afrika...are the harbingers of the inflow of non Xhosa speaking peopel who are now regarded Xhosa. It’s recorded in academic history that as early as the 10th century, southern Afrika has been experiencing a whole load of migration patterns that have led to cultural and social evolutions of intense proportions. You will notice that amongst the Xhosa there a families who have iithakazelo (iziduko) that link them to where they come from, hence the term isiduko, where they disappereared from till they emerged here..baaduka). This (emulgulation) became institutionalized predominantly through king Hintsas’ willing ways of social cohesion amongst abantu abantsundu in the wake of the 19th century. Now, abaThembu are part of this inflow. Also are the Sotho, Hlubi, Zulu, Khoisan, Ndebele. Today in the eastern cape you find Xhosa speaking people who proclaim (through iziduko) to be of baSotho, MaZulu. AmaNgwane, amaHlubi, Khoisan. A good example are the abaThembu. You still today find ooMthembu in KZN. They share the same cultural history with their counterparts in the EC. Another is ooZulu, OooSkhomo. We all know them as Xhosa, but they claim to be of Zulu descent. Again..ooBhayi, ooKhetshe..amaVundla..They are Sotho..but they all speak isiXhosa wherever you find them in the EC. AmaGqunukhwebe are also a Xhosa tribe that has decadency from the Khoi and the San. They don’t speak Khoisan, but isiXhosa...but their social history deems them Khoisan. This is a general phenomenon that exists in the whole African continent and the reason we don’t not take notice of it is because of how and why it happened. Divide and rule mechanism of British colonial expansion. Going back to the question of, if Mandela is not Xhosa but Thembu, what does that mean? Simply, BuyeleKhaya dalindyebo had a massive point when he said that the Thembu can claim sovereignty in parts of KZN, EC, Free State, WC GP and Northen cape, what he failed to mention is the reasons for his claim and what they mean for social cohesion. Some cultural/social groups in the EC today have strong roots in northern parts of Afrika. Through time they have transformed their identity because of the social migrations that led to things like the notorious Mfecane (which had nothing to do with Shaka being a dictator and everything to do with fighting colonial conquest).