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MATABELE (" vanishing " or " hidden "...

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MATABELE (" vanishing " or " hidden " See also:people, so called from their See also:appearance in See also:battle, hidden behind enormous oxhide See also:shields)  , a See also:people of Zulu origin who began See also:national See also:life under the See also:chief Mosilikatze . Driven out of the See also:Transvaal by the Boers in 1837, Mosilikatze crossed the See also:Limpopo with a military See also:host which had been recruited from every tribe conquered by him during his ten years' predominance in the Transvaal . In their new territories the See also:Matabele absorbed into their ranks many members of the conquered See also:Mashona tribes and established a military despotism . Their See also:sole occupation was See also:war, for which their See also:laws and organization were designed to See also:fit them . This See also:system of See also:constant warfare is, since the See also:conquest of Matabeleland by the See also:British in 1893, a thing of the past . The Matabele are now herdsmen and agriculturists .

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