WESTERN CAPE COUNCIL OF NGUNI PEOPLE PRESENTATION TO TRUP 07 July 2016 WHO ARE NGUNI PEOPLE • Nguni people live mainly below the high plateau of the interior, between the escarpment of the Drakensberg and the sea, and strench, in a long broad belt of hundreds of tribes, from Swaziland right through Natal far down into the Cape Province (Warmelo, 1974). • The Northern Nguni comprise the Swazi, Zulu, and Ndebele peoples of the highveld; and the Southern Nguni include the Xhosa, Thembu, Bomvana, Mpondo, Mpondomise, Hlubi and Bhaca. HISTORICAL CLAIM TO PINELANDS AND NDABENI • King Langalibalele was one of the first inhabitants of Pinelands after his release from Robben Island in 1875. He stayed in Pinelands till 1887. Stayed in Uitvlugt / Pinelands approximately for 12 years (Cuthbertson, 1979; www.pelteret.co.za/pdf/research). • After the Battle of Isandwana & Battle of Ulundi (Zulu War 1879), King Cetywayo became another prominent Nguni Leader to be an inhabitant of Pinelands / Oude Molen (exiled) (www.pelteret.co.za/pdf/research) Returned to Zululand in1883. • Establishment of Ndabeni started just prior 1901 as a Black migrant workers residential area (Saunders, 1979; Coetzer, 2009). Around about 1923 Blacks were forcefully removed to Langa. WHY NGUNI PEOPLE WERE REMOVED • Prejudice of Indigenous People • Colonial Policy of Segregation - Separate Development • Forced Removals • Dispossession of Black people CURRENT GUIDING PRINCIPLES • Redress of Colonial Unjust Policies • Reconciliation • Integration • Diverse, Coherent and Sustainable Communities • • Shared Vision and Destiny PROPOSED PROJECTS • Traditional Village (Traditional Houses) • Nguni Cultural Centre • Food Gardens • Herbs Gardens • Flower Gardens • Museum / Exhibition Centre • Stalls REFERENCES 1. Coetzer, N. 2009. Langa Township in the 1920s – an (extra) ordinary Garden Suburb. SAJAH, ISSN 0258-3542, Vol. 24, No. 1: pp 1-19. 2. Saunders, C. 1979. The creation of Ndabeni: Urban segregation and African resistance in Cape Town in Studies in History of Cape Town, v. 1. 3. The Garden City of Pinelands, South Africa. www.pelteret.co.za/pdf/research 4. Van Warmelo, N. J. 1974. The classification of cultural groups. In W. D. Hammond-Tooke (ed). The Bantu-speaking Peoples of Southern Africa. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London.