Gqunkhwebe

Ngqika, Ndlambe, and the Gqunkhwebe (the latter being partly of Khoekhoe origin).

…on the Xhosa groups, the Gqunukhwebe and Ndlambe. An attack by the Rharhabe-Xhosa on Graham’s Town (Grahamstown; now Makhanda) in 1819 provided the pretext for the annexation of more African territory, to the Keiskamma River. Various Rharhabe-Xhosa groups were driven from their lands throughout the early 1830s. They counterattacked in…