the name of a powerful
Bantu tribe that occupies the western part of
Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa. Also called Ndebele. "Ooh, MatabeleTit was way back, way back, way back!"
- Education Point of Agreement (30 Oct. 56) a tribe of African people who were originally part of the
Zulu Empire, a powerful warlike nation consisting of many
different tribes in southern Africa. In the 1800s, to escape the tyrannical rule of the then
Zulu king, the Matabele fled northward. Battling other tribes for land, they settled in what became southern
Zimbabwe and later occupied small villages primarily around the city of
Bulawayo, raising
corn,
peanuts as well as cattle.