About 10-20 000 Ndebele settlers arrived 50 years before the 1500 white ones.
They wreaked havoc on the fragmented tribes totalling less than 400 000 people to the north of them, who in turn destroyed the San, who were here first. The Bantu migration from further north is known, its clearly a convenient time frame that decides whether you're a settler, a coloniser or indigenous.
Had the whites not arrived most tribes would not have fared too well under the Ndebele.
That 400 000 population would have dwindled as they had to vacate north, east and West to escape the assegai. To go from a population of 400 000 to 16 million ,maybe more, requires further "settlers"
When the whites needed labor and provided jobs (of sorts, they were not very nice, but nicer than the ndebele
) there was a massive influx of further settlers from Malawi and Mozambique, a few million in fact. These settlers arrived long after the white ones . They integrated and did all sorts of dodgy things to get citizenships. Naqvi should talk to them. My distant relatives broke ground in Mash East. There was virtually nobody there, it took a couple of years for word to get out and people came looking for jobs from Malawi and Moz. The main language on the farm and the adjacent ones for years was Chinyanja. Malawians
I dont mind name changes actually. Why drive through a shit hole town or a street and be reminded of how nice, clean and organised it used to be?
They should change Logan Cup and Vigne immediately to reflect the disaster.
