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A homestead (isiXhosa 'umzi', isiZulu 'umuzi',
siSwati 'umuti') is a cluster of several houses
(singular indlu; plural isiXhosa and isiZulu 'izindlu',
siSwati 'tindlu') characteristic of the
Nguni-speaking peoples of southern Africa.
Each
homestead will normally be occupied by a single
extended family.
"Rolihlahla
(Nelson) Mandela was
born in the Transkei region of
South Africa, in the small
village of Qunu - a collection
of beehive-shaped huts with
thatch roofs, known as rondavels.
His mother had three huts and
Mandela lived with her and his
three immediate sisters. One hut
was used for sleeping, another
for cooking and the third for
storing grain and other food.
Everyone slept on mats on the
ground, without pillows. His
mother, as a married woman, had
her own field to tend and her
own cattle kraal - an enclosure
for cattle made from thorn
bushes."
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A kraal (sometimes spelt craal or
kraul) is an English or Afrikaans word to
describe an enclosure for cattle or other
livestock, located within a homestead or
village. The enclosure may be surrounded by
a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, and
is roughly circular in form.
The word kraal is thought to derive from
the Portuguese curral (an enclosure
or pen for carts), or the Spanish corral
(an enclosure, often from wagons).
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This article is licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation Licence. It uses material
from the Wikipedia article "Homestead"
and "Kraal"
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