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However, Elton's account of a hippo-shooting in the Nkomati is remarkably similar to das Neves ': the armed white man establishes his popularity among local people by killing the huge beast and then allowing them to divide and consume the carcass among themselves.

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He also served as Deputy Chief Representative of the ANC in Mozambique, a post he occupied until the signing of the Nkomati Accord between the Mozambican and South African governments in 1984.

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By the 1940s, this trend resulted in the alienationto European settlers and the colonial stateof a continuous swath of land along both banks of the Nkomati River.

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As Portuguese authority spread north and west of the Nkomati, the precarious nature of dryland farmingalong with the area's lush grass cover and Africans 'own impressive cattle herdsfueled state and settler interest in the development of commercial pastoralism.

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However, Dutch interest in the Nkomati as a route to the interior persisted, and for the remaining years of their presence at Delagoa Bay they pondered its navigational challenges and probable geographic extent and grilled African travelers who arrived there about the routes they had taken, the peoples they had passed, and the natural resources they had noticed along the way.

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Facazisse's first good postwar harvest, in mid-1996, only worsened the situation, because its benefits were spread so unevenly: Farmers with nyaka plots too close to the Nkomati lost their crops to flooding, while those on nyaka fields farther from the river reaped excellent harvests.

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In Lisbon, Lausanne, Johannesburg, and Maputo, Magude was the shorthand I used for my ultimate destination: the sandy, rolling, sometimes verdant landscape north and west of the elbow in the Nkomati River, the obscure backyard both to southern Mozambique's better-known coastal region and to South Africa's Kruger Park, which abuts this section of the international border.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Between the time of Trigardt's journey in the late 1830s and Portugal's occupation of southern Mozambique in the 1890s, a number of European overland expeditions circled around and occasionally crossed the area north and west of the Nkomati bend.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Even Trigardt's route map changes abruptly east of the "Bombo Hills," depicting only major rivers and the course his party followeddrawn as a virtual beeline through blank spacealong the Nkomati to Lourenço Marques.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The earliest of these maps, dating from the late 1890s, consisted of detailed drawings of the Nkomati River and were accompanied by proposals for irrigation schemes whereby white settlers could cultivate such lucrative cash crops as sugar, tobacco, and citrus fruits in the fertile alluvial soils along the river's banks.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005