| Zimbabwe is generally portrayed as made up of two major tribes, the Shona and the Ndebele. |
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| Of real concern is the potential for tribal war between the majority Shona people and the Ndebele tribe. |
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| Many of Dorothy's most celebrated songs are in Ndebele, a language much closer to Kwazulu than to Zimbabwe's majority tongue, Shona. |
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| Shona and Sindebele are the most widely spoken, and students are required to take at least one of those languages. |
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| This instrument, the thumb piano, is the backbone of the musical culture of the Bantu Shona people. |
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| There are two main ethnic groups, the Shona, who represent 75 percent of the population, and the Ndebele, who represent 19 percent. |
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| Social organization in the Shona was based on distinctions between commoners and a ruling class. |
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| The latter invaded from what is now South Africa in the 1840s to assimilate some Shona as lower-class subjects. |
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| In common with other Bantu languages, Shona has a basic CV syllable structure. |
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| After we saw the movie last Saturday, I was chatting with Bill, and he said his field methods consultant's mother is a Shona speaker. |
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| The musical short film, based on a Shona folk tale, will premiere at ZIFF complete with a live performance of the songs in the film. |
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| Southern tribes include the Tsonga, the Karanga, the Chopi, the Shona, and the Nguni. |
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| English is the official language, but most people speak Shona or Sindebele as a first language. |
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| To stake their claim to the land, settlers fought and eventually pushed the Shona and Ndebele onto small barren tracts called tribal trust lands. |
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| It is also generally accepted that the president should be a Shona, rather than a Ndebele, a much smaller group. |
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| Shona and Ndebele, the two dominant endoglossic languages have been accorded the status of national languages. |
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| Her influence was so great that she inspired the Shona and the Ndebele, the largest tribes of Zimbabwe, to unite against their common foe. |
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| With a population of 12 million, Zimbabwe has several languages of which English, Shona and Ndebele are the main languages. |
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| He gives a sterling performance as the lily-livered auctioneer Mick Flanagan with Shona Heffernan in top form as his embittered, feisty wife Mamie. |
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| The Deputy Minister for the Environment and Rural Affairs presenting the award to Shona miles, the MHS nurse coordinating the project. |
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| In liaison with NGOs, pamphlets on basic laws have been produced in English and the two major vernacular languages which are Shona and Ndebele. |
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| In others, such as Hausa, Shona, and Swahili, because of bilingualism and code-mixing, the influence may have affected not only vocabulary but also structure. |
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| When some Ndebele challenged this Shona dominance in the 1980s, his army's notorious Fifth Brigade murdered, raped and pillaged its way through Matabeleland. |
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| These people are Shona refugees from the eastern side of Zimbabwe600 kilometers or more away. |
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| The same is true for an Ijaw Nigerian or a Shona Zimbabwean. |
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| A family of keyed instruments played with the thumbs and forefingers, mbira are important for the religious, familial, community, and personal life of the Shona people. |
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| Interpreters are also available in court where it is necessary that communication be in the vernacular languages such as Shona and Ndebele. |
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| When little Shona Ritchie plucked up the courage to ask for a peck from Prince William, the future king was happy to oblige. |
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| Muzenda was from the Karanga subgroup, which, demographically, is the biggest among the Shona. |
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| The baseline is a humble, positive uplifting of Shona culture and values, which is why guitars, drums and horns take a back seat to the unassuming little mbira finger piano. |
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| A country of roughly 16 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used. |
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| Dressed like a princess, 4-year-old Shona Ritchie gathered her courage and asked the future king for a kiss. |
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| Michael rolled his eyes as George trailed off to babble about Shona, the captain of the cheerleading team. |
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| Auntie to many, Gran and Granny to Nicole, Stacey, Aleesha, Carly, Corbie, Billy, Shona, Lara and Scott, Great Granny to Rylan. |
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| In some Shona sculpture, the psychic eye is in mid-forehead, a Cyclopic eye indicating a pure spirit creature. |
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| Now played with a percussive technique, the guitars were made to imitate the rippling, interlocking melodies of the mbira specifically, those of the mbira dzavadzimu, the instrument used to summon the Shona ancestral spirits. |
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| The party's organisational structure has always striven to strike the right balance in terms of leadership positions between these three Shona subgroups. |
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| And from the culture of my tribe, the Shona and Ndebele people. |
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| The Mbende Jerusarema Dance is a popular dance style practised by the Zezuru Shona people living in eastern Zimbabwe, especially in the Murewa and Uzumba-MarambaPfungwe districts. |
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| Dr. Shona McDiarmid is a lawyer who brings to Neurochem more than fifteen years experience securing and defending intellectual property rights in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotechnology fields. |
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| In the Shona culture in Zimbabwe, children do not actively participate in rituals surrounding death, and they are usually kept away from the funeral and the grave, although changes have been noted in this custom. |
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| Barrie wrote a screenplay for the 1924 film adaptation of Peter Pan whilst on Eilean Shona. |
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| However, a clustering of sounds at the beginning of a syllable can be readily observed in such languages as Shona, and the Makua languages. |
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| The Zimbabwean plateau eventually became the centre of subsequent Shona states, beginning around the 10th century. |
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| This Shona state ruled much of the area that is known as Zimbabwe today, and parts of central Mozambique. |
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| By 1838, the Rozwi Empire, along with the other smaller Shona states were conquered by the Ndebele and reduced to vassaldom. |
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| Opposition to what was perceived as a Shona takeover immediately erupted around Matabeleland. |
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| The Bantu languages Shona and Sindebele are the principal indigenous languages of Zimbabwe. |
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| Zimbabwe has many different cultures which may include beliefs and ceremonies, one of them being Shona, Zimbabwe's largest ethnic group. |
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| The Shona people have many sculptures and carvings which are made with the finest materials available. |
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| Shona sculpture in has survived through the ages and the modern style is a fusion of African folklore with European influences. |
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| The other burned Britons were identified by Turkish authorities as Shona Allan, 13, Moiba Allan, 48, and 20-year-old Daniel John Braize. |
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| There were also clean sweeps in the women's 200m through Vicky Carmichael and Shona Burns and hammer with Lisa-Marie Shippen and Leah Weatheritt. |
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| EastEnders star Shona McGarty has turned down a request by her boss to sing on the show. |
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| Hence, we have particularly focused on Shona and Venda taboos to examine the underlying indigenous aspects of African philosophy. |
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| A major land and sea search continued until darkness in a bid to trace 35-year-old Shona Johnston. |
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| The crime scene had almost been obliterated by the downdraught of the helicopter airlifting Shona to hospital. |
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| Radio and television news now broadcast in Shona, Sindebele and English. |
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| This corresponds roughly to the precolonial territory of the Shona people and the Matabele people, although there are significant ethnic minorities in most provinces. |
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| This Shona state further refined and expanded upon Mapungubwe's stone architecture, which survives to this day at the ruins of the kingdom's capital of Great Zimbabwe. |
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| The current Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport is Shona Robison. |
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| Some of them are such as negative attitudes by the Shona speakers towards their language in its diglossic relationship with English as the H in Zimbabwe. |
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| Shona O'Keeffe, Emily Crilly and Holly Riseborough all competed on the four pieces of apparatus, the bar, beam, vault and floor, as well as in the overall competition. |
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| The third article also takes a historical stance and discusses the Native Marriage Laws in Southern Rhodesia, especially among the Shona community. |
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