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1. Buccaneers Beach Lodge

   ... Southern Transkei combining adventurous bits, learning about Xhosa culture and seeing some of the amazing natural features prevalent along ...

   Buccaneers Lodg... - 20/03/2026 - 14:28

2. Development

   ... and extremely bloody Cape Frontier Wars (also knowns as the Xhosa - or Kaffir Wars) over a 100 year period from 1781-1878. The entire area ... the 1900's, while the disparate lands and tribes of Xhosa speaking people were forged into a “homeland”. The policies of ...

   Jeff Brown - 24/01/2026 - 13:06 - 2 comments

3. Xhosa Calendar

   ... Jeff Brown's blog 155595 reads The Xhosa months of the year are poetically named after stars and seasonal plants of Southern Africa. The Xhosa year traditionally began in June and ended in May, when Canopus, the ...

   Jeff Brown - 31/12/2025 - 23:35 - 12 comments

4. Zac's on Main

   ...  Bar and Restaurant, dorms and doubles in traditional Xhosa hut style, luxurious en-suite rooms inside the main house, and ...

   Sugarloaf Beach... - 27/08/2024 - 09:52

5. Hiking the Wild Coast

   ... Johns to Coffee Bay, and stay along the way in traditional Xhosa huts. Contact: Jimmy Selani, the Tour Guide from Mtumbane (PSJ) on ... responded, to blank looks. Jimmy translated into his native Xhosa but the wide-eyed expressions that greeted his clarification told me we ...

   Jeff Brown - 05/06/2024 - 08:43 - 1 comment

6. Umngazi Hotel & Spa

   ... surrounding hills are only sparsely dotted with colourful Xhosa huts. The resort is geared for family vacations so while you get your ...

   Umngazi River B... - 19/05/2024 - 11:34

7. Boots Cottage Xora Mouth

   ... and will happily make fat cakes (vetkoek) and home made Xhosa bread for you. Please bring your own flour and yeast, etc.. They can also ...

   Boots Cottage - 08/05/2024 - 12:34

8. The Haven Hotel

   ... There are also 5 thatched rondawels designed in traditional Xhosa style. Tweet Widget Facebook Like ...

   Haven - 03/02/2022 - 16:34

9. Nongqawuse

   ... 102685 reads 1856 was a bad year for the Xhosa nation of the Wild Coast. Their lands had been taken by the ... and within a few months more than a third of the entire Xhosa people had died of starvation and disease. It was easy for the ...

   Jeff Brown - 30/01/2022 - 14:32 - 21 comments

10. Wild Lubanzi

    ... This is Lubanzi, a little Xhosa Village in the middle of nowhere of the former Transkei. This is where ...

    Wild Lubanzi - 19/09/2021 - 12:00