Swazi
The Swazi (German Swasi , siSwati emaSwati , also bakaNgwane ) are an African ethnic group of the Bantu . They belong to the subgroup of the Nguni and live in southern Africa .
history
In the 19th century, the Swazi came under increasing pressure from immigrating Europeans. While external pressure led to internal rivalries among the neighboring Zulu, the opposite trend was evident among the Swazi. The external threat created a network of close ties between the individual chiefdoms and, in the late 1840s, even a kingship that strengthened the position of the Swazi. They were able to significantly enlarge their ancestral territory between 1856 and 1865. A year later, in a treaty with the Boers, they settled the details of the border between the Boer Transvaal and the Swazi country commonly known as Swaziland . The Swazis lost about half of their territory.
The peace lasted for two years. In 1868 the expanding British annexed Swaziland. The Swazi now came under increasing pressure on the one hand from gold prospectors flowing in and on the other hand from the military might of the British. However, with the Pretoria Convention of 1881, the British recognized Swaziland's independence. Four years later the British turned their backs on this peace policy; they tried to gain more control over this area. In 1889, the Swazi king Dlamini IV was overthrown by the British. In 1895 Swaziland was declared a protectorate of the British-controlled Transvaal. The power of the legislature , the judiciary and the administration thus passed to the British.
In order to distance himself from the administrative sovereignty of the British from the colonial times and to avoid the risk of confusion with Switzerland (English for Switzerland ), King Mswati III declared. In April 2018 the English name of the state was immediately renamed eSwatini , which in Siswati means something like the place of the Swazi . The Siswati name was previously eSwatini .
Web links
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- ↑ a b Who we are. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Swaziland National Trust Commission - Swazi History. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .