The settlement of the Xhosa people

A group of related tribes mainly settled in the eastern province of South Africa, belonging to the southern Nguni who speaks Bantu. The main Xhosa ethnic groups include the Gekaleka (Gcaleka), Ngika (Njika), Ndlamba (Ndlamba), Dushane (Dushane), Kayi (Qayi), Nntide (Ntinde) and Gegugeweber (Gqunkkhoin) who are partially related to Khoikhoin.

in the late 18th and 19th centuries, there were a series of conflicts between Xhosa and European immigrants in the eastern border area of Cape Colony, which were generally called the Kafir War (see 〔Cape Frontier Wars〕). At that time, the population of Xhosa people was expanding day by day, and overpopulation and land shortage drove them to develop southward, which happened to meet the Cape colonists who were exploring northward in order to find good farmland. The fighting between the two sides lasted for a century, and finally the Xhosa people were defeated by European immigrants and their territory was merged into the Cape colony. Europeans call the land of Kossa people east of Dakai River transkei, and the land of Kossa people between Dayu River and Dakai River Siskai.