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

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