People / group
Tsonga people
The Tsonga are a Bantu-speaking people of southern Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa, with smaller communities in Zimbabwe and Eswatini; their language is Xitsonga. Their chiefdoms around Delagoa Bay, among them the Tembe, traded ivory and other goods with Portuguese, Dutch, English and Austrian merchants from the 16th century. In the 19th century many came under the rule of the Gaza Empire.
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