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....
Zulu, like most indigenous Southern African languages, was not a written language until contact with missionaries from Europe, who documented the language using the Latin script. The first grammar book of the Zulu language was published in Norway in 1850 by the Norwegian missionary Hans Schreuder.The first written document in Zulu was a Bible translation that appeared in 1883.In 1901, John Dube (1871â1946), a Zulu from Natal, created the Ohlange Institute, the first native educational institution in South Africa. He was also the author of Insila kaShaka, the first novel written in Zulu (1930).ulu or isiZulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa.