MAKALAKA  , a

general designation used by the Bechuana, Matabele and kindred peoples, for conquered or slave tribes . Thus many of the tribes subjugated by the Makololo chief, Sebituane, about 183o were called Makalaka (see David Living-stone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, London, 1857) . By early writers on south-central Africa certain of the inhabitants of Barotseland were styled Makalaka; the name is more frequently used to designate the Makalanga, one of the tribes now classed as Mashonas (q.v.), who were brought into subjection by the Matabele .