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Ndebele or Matabele may refer to:

  • Southern Ndebele people, located in South Africa
  • Northern Ndebele people, located in Zimbabwe and Botswana
  • , a destroyer of the Royal Navy

  • Matabele (genus), a genus of beetle in the family Carabidae

Usage examples of "ndebele".

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.

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

First the Zulus, followed by the Swazis, then the Ndebele, Sotho and Tsonga.

Was he not the spirit of the great chief who bound Zulu with the Swazi and the Ndebele and the Tsonga and the Sotho so that they all sat on one mat in a great singing indaba?

Once he asked, "Something that I still find a little confusing, Craig the subtle difference between the term Matabele, Ndebele and SiNdebele.