What is "mashona"

Usage examples of "mashona".

Mzilikazi first crossed the river Limpopo, the Mashona have been our dogs - amaholi, slaves and sons of slaves.

This secretary was Mashona and insisted on speaking English as proof of her sophistication.

The man was an African, almost certainly Mashona, for he wore the crisply starched uniform of the regular Zimbabwean army and a the red staff tabs and stars of a Brigadier-General.

He chose to return to Zimbabwe, and in doing so has declared to all the world that here is a land where men of any colour, of any tribe - black or white, Mashona or Matabele - are free to live and work, unafraid and unmolested, safe in the rule of just laws.

Even the judge, Mr justice Domashawa, a tall, emaciated Mashona, with a delicately bridged atypical Egyptian nose and small, bright, birdlike eyes, although vested in all the authority of his scarlet.

While you, my dear Tungata, are a sprig of the house of Kumalo, the old robber chiefs of the Matabele, who for a hundred years 258 raided and terrorized the legitimate owners of this land, the Mashona people.

The young women of Mashona, 259 if they were nubile, were mounted for pleasure and used as breeding-stock to provide more warriors for his murderous impis - but then you know all this.

He became a notorious Matabele induna, and slew hundreds of defenceless Mashona during his depredations.

He has refused our young men the ancient right to raid the Mashona when all the world knows that the Mashona are our dogs to kill or let live as we choose.

June 1896, that Rhodes was settling with the Ndebeles in the south of the country, the Mashona in the central and east of the country rose up in a separate and more serious rebellion against the whites.

When farmers, such as the Mashona, go to war, they are not like the Ndebele warriors, who come into the open savannah flashing their bare chests under the clear sky and waving their plumed headdresses and flaunting the skins of slaughtered lions and hunted leopards on their thighs and brows.

But he has perfect European manners, which are quite different from perfect Mashona manners.

The Mashona outnumber the Ndebele four to one and Mugabe won the election by four to one.

Mzilikazi first crossed the river Limpopo, the Mashona have been our dogs amahob, slaves and sons of slaves.

Nkomo, the Matabele leader, had been accused of harbouring rebels and accumulating caches of weapons, and driven in disgrace by Mashona,dominated government into enforced retirement.