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Extracted from text ... 1. The three references to umguyo as war dance occur in A. Kropf and R. Godfrey, A Kafir-English Dictionary (Lovedale, 1915), 138; J.H. Soga, The South-Eastern Bantu (Johannesburg, 1930), 345 (refers to 'war song'); and, above all, Mabasa and Nomala, 'A Brief H...

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Published in:South African Historical Journal Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 224 - 242
Main Author: Peires, Jeff
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: UNISA Press 01.01.2004
ISSN:0258-2473, 0258-2473
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Summary:Extracted from text ... 1. The three references to umguyo as war dance occur in A. Kropf and R. Godfrey, A Kafir-English Dictionary (Lovedale, 1915), 138; J.H. Soga, The South-Eastern Bantu (Johannesburg, 1930), 345 (refers to 'war song'); and, above all, Mabasa and Nomala, 'A Brief History of the Pondomise Tribe', in F. Brownlee, The Transkeian Native Territories (Lovedale, 1923), 121. Mabasa was a former regent of the Tsolo Mpondomise, so he should have known what he was talking about. 2. 'Preface to the French Edition', in K. Marx, Capital, vol. 1 (trans. B. Fowkes) (Harmondsworth, 1976), 104. 224 South African Historical Journal 51 ..
ISSN:0258-2473
0258-2473