Word: pondos
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...Soweto, as militants fought with migrant workers who refused to observe a "black Christmas" boycott called by the militants to honor those who had died since the violence began in September 1984. In Natal province, 58 blacks were killed when 2,000 Zulus and 3,000 members of the Pondo tribe, armed with spears, shields, clubs and shotguns, clashed in a Christmas Day battle sparked by tribal and political rivalries...
Later in the week, at least 42 people were killed outside Durban in yet another resurgence of fighting between Zulu and Pondo tribesmen. Thousands more were left homeless as fire spread through the shantytown where the Pondos live. Since Christmas, more than 100 people have died in clashes between the groups over jobs and housing. Police officials arrested 480 people after the latest outbreak and seized truckloads of weapons, including spears and homemade guns...
...urban African, Nakasa argues, is the person most torn by apartheid. "I am supposed to be a Pondo," wrote Nakasa in one of his last articles before leaving South Africa, "but I don't even know the language of that tribe. I was brought up in a Zulu-speaking home, yet I can no longer think in Zulu because that language cannot cope with the demands of our day. I have never owned an assegai or any of those magnificent Zulu shields. Neither do I propose to wear tribal dress when I go to the U.S. I am just...
Five thousand excited Pondo and Gaika tribesmen put on their best feathers one day last week and poured into the Great Place, the Royal Kraal of Paramount Chief Archibald Sandile of Gaikaland. They gathered for the greatest social event in the history of the tribes: the wedding of Chief Sandile's son, Anthorpe, to Eunice, daughter of Paramount Chief Victor Poto Mdamase of Pondoland...
...three hours before Anthorpe and Eunice were made man and wife. Bridegroom and bride struggled through the crowd to the seclusion of Chief Sandile's house. The whites streamed back to the cities, leaving the Gaika and the Pondo tribesmen to ponder on the strange customs and manners of white people...