Matabeles

The wars waged against the Mashonas and Matabeles were a doubtful good; but the plays of Oscar Wilde had already given many hours of innocent pleasure to thousands of persons, and were evidently destined to benefit tens of thousands in the future.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Up to 10,000 Matabeles - who are concentrated in the south of the country - were killed by members of Mugabe's feared Fifth Brigade in the early 1980s as part of a purge by the president of rivals to his ethnic Mashona tribe.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

At that time it was doubtful if the Zulus, Matabeles, and Basutos were to be trusted, and consequently the position of the Colonel in supreme command was one of great responsibility.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

Tasmanians and Australians have been almost completely extirpated; how, in the name of civilization, thousands of Dervishes have been mowed down in Egypt, and how South African soil itself has been stained from time to time by the blood of Zulus, Basutos, Matabeles and other coloured races, who became the victims of British, and _not Boer_, arms.

In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger

In years gone by the wives and daughters of the early pioneers stood by the side of their husbands and fathers, casting bullets and loading their flint-lock guns, as the latter bravely repelled the fierce onslaught of Zulus, Matabeles, and other savage hordes.

In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger

The Matabeles and Mashona tribes between them contrived to render the country uninhabitable.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke

The Mashona of Southern Africa informed their bishop that they had once had a god, but that the Matabeles had driven him away.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

” The Mashona of Southern Africa informed their bishop that they had once had a god, but that the Matabeles had driven him away.

Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods 1922

So in South Africa, about the month of April, the Matabeles light huge fires to the windward of their gardens, “their idea being that the smoke, by passing over the crops, will assist the ripening of them.

Chapter 63. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals. § 2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals 1922

So in South Africa, about the month of April, the Matabeles light huge fires to the windward of their gardens, "their idea being that the smoke, by passing over the crops, will assist the ripening of them."

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922