After the calendar reform that added January and February to the beginning of the year, September became the ninth month, but retained its name. It had 29 days until the Julian reform, which added a day.
All the three groups of the Bantu, San and Khoi originated in the north of Africa and migrated to the south with the Bantu being the first settlers in the Cape area in South Africa in 300A.D.he Xhosa were wont to use it in reference to all of the interior Bantu speakers who were sub-divisions of the Sotho people. The word may mean 'same or similar' or even 'together' as in the Setswana word 'tshwana' ; referring to many of Batswana groups who were considered to have similar origins. Tswana and Sotho....
(Transport in the vast spaces of colonial South Africa was often by ox cart, as it was on the Great Plains of the United States during the 1800s, too.) Trek comes from Afrikaans, the language of South Africa that descends from the dialects spoken by the Dutch settlers in the region.rom 1835 to 1843, more than 10,000 Boers, the Voortrekkers (The Foretrekkers), traveled north and northeast as part of the Groot Trek (Great Trek) and established independent Afrikaans-speaking states that were eventually incorporated into the British Empire and became part of the modern nation of South Africa.