Ndlambe, plural noun

Forms:
Amadhlambi, amaNdlambeShow more Also Amadhlambi, amaNdlambe, Dhlambi, Jlambi.
Origin:
IsiXhosaShow more IsiXhosa amaNdlambe, named for Ndlambe (c1740–1828), son of Rharabe.
(The) members of one of the major branches (and its consolidated chiefdoms) of the Rharhabe division of the Xhosa people; Slambie. Also attributive.
Note:
The Rharhabe split into the Ngqika (‘Gaikas’) and the Ndlambe (‘Slambies’) in c1795–96, when Ngqika tried to claim his throne from his uncle Ndlambe who had been acting as regent since about 1782. See also Rharhabe sense a.
Note:
As is the case with many names of peoples and groups in South African English, this word has been found only in plural uses; however, it may be that it has also been used in unrecorded singular forms.
1842 J.W. Appleyard War of Axe (1971) 12I fear that Pati is in league..with the Gaika and Jlambi chiefs.
1846 J.W. Appleyard War of Axe (1971) 68Stock’s great Counsellor and many of the great men of the Amadhlambi, have been killed.
1846 J.W. Appleyard War of Axe (1971) 103Capt. Maclean..has received a similar appointment in relation to the Dhlambi tribes.
1939 N.J. Van Warmelo in A.M. Duggan-Cronin Bantu Tribes III. i. 21Ndlambe ultimately fled across the Bushman’s river, and here great numbers joined him, not only from Ngqika’s people, but also from the tribes that had previously seceded. The Ndlambe tribe thus became almost as powerful as the Ngqika.
1968 E.A. Walker Hist. of Sn Afr. 288The Ndhlambis and the Galekas, Sandile’s Gaikas and most of the Tembus slew and slew and..the madness mounted higher.
1971 J. Meintjes Sandile 12The powerful tribe of ama-Rarabe was badly weakened when it split up into the rival factions of ama-Ngqika and ama-Ndlambe.
1971 J. Meintjes Sandile 13The serious split between the ama-Ngqika and the ama-Ndlambe took place in 1796.
1981 J.B. Peires House of Phalo 61Ndlambe did his best to make a separate peace with the Colony...Somerset and Cuyler..turned a deaf ear. Well might the amaNdlambe complain.
1981 J.B. Peires House of Phalo 80The Ndlambe and the Gqunukhwebe had been expelled from their territory in 1812.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 99Some Ndlambe chiefs continued an intermittent, harassing style of resistance into 1847.
1989 [see Ngqika].
(The) members of one of the major branches (and its consolidated chiefdoms) of the Rharhabe division of the Xhosa people; Slambie. Also attributive.
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