Zuide (1500?), reputed founder of the nation. | +--------------------+--------+---------------+ | | | Tembu. Xosa (1530?). Mpondo. | | | Ama-Tembu Toguh. +---------+-----+ (Tambookies), | | Tembuland Palo (ob. 1780?), Ama-Mponda, Ama-Mpondumisi and Emigrant 10th in descent between river | Tembuland. from Xosa. Umtata and Abelungu | Natal. (dispersed?) | +--------------------+-------------+ | | Gcaleka. Rarabe | (Khakhabe). Klanta. | | +--------------+----------------+ Hinza. | | | | Omlao. Mbalu. Ndhlambe | | --- | Kreli. Ngqika. Ama-Mbalus. Ama-Ndhlambes ----- | Ama-Gwali. or T'slambies, Ama-Gcaleka Macomo Ama-Ntinde. between the (Galeka), | Ama-Gqunukwebi. Keiskamma and between the Tyali. Ama-Velelo. Great Kei Bashee and | Ama-Baxa. rivers. Umtata rivers. Sandili. Imi-Dange. ----- Imi-Dushane. Ama-Ngqika (Gaika), Amatola highlands. \___________________________________________/ | Ama-Khakhabe. \______________________________________________________________/ | Ama-Xosa.
It will be seen that, as representing the elder branch, the Gcaleka stand apart from the rest of Xosa's descendants, whom they group collectively as Ama-Rarabe (Ama-Khakhabe), and whose genealogies, except in the case of the Gaikas and T'slambies, are very confused. The Ama-Xosa country lies mainly between the Keiskama and Umtata rivers.
The Zulu call themselves Abantu ba-Kwa-Zulu, i.e. "people of Zulu's land," or briefly Bakwa-Zulu, from a legendary chief Zulu, founder of the royal dynasty. They were originally an obscure tribe occupying the basin of the Umfolosi river, but rose suddenly to power under Chaka,[2] who had been brought up among the neighbouring and powerful Umtetwas, and who succeeded the chiefs of that tribe and of his own in the beginning of the 19th century. But the true mother tribe seems to have been the extinct Ama-Ntombela, whence the Ama-Tefulu, the U'ndwande, U'mlelas, U'mtetwas and many others, all absorbed or claiming to be true Zulus. But they are only so by political subjection, and the gradual adoption of the Zulu dress, usages and speech. Hence in most cases the term Zulu implies political rather than blood relationship. This remark applies also to the followers of Mosilikatze (properly Umsilikazi), who, after a fierce struggle with the Bechuana, founded about 1820 a second Zulu state about the head waters of the Orange river. In 1837 most of them were driven northwards by the Boers and are now known as Matabele.
