#imbewu

Amongst the Bushmen, or possibly a relative tribe of the Khoi Khoi, the men were known as Tebogo and the women as Lesego.

The fact is that in the movie Hunger Games, Cinna is probably a misspelling of the Khoi-Khoi Senna and is also a confirmation of this practice of Khoi-Khoi Sennas and Sannas.

Because, for many generations, the Khoi-Khoi, the San, the Bushmen and the QwaNannas (the Strandlopers) had been relegated to a sort of de facto status, in the sense that they were considered to be what was called 'Bantu' tribes. Bantu could mean a foreigner or invader but it applied, actually, to people who just had to come up with a sufficient Imali and Tabalaza to be given a village or Kazi. I personally think they had been displaced and politics then ruled over them and their movements, with an iron fist.

As a result, those tribes were whittled down to single numbers and it was hard for them to procreate without a home Kazi.

In the case of the Khoi-Khoi - they spoke Xi, literally meaning 'click' (with the tongue), which was a difficult language to learn and therefore, very few people other than Khoi-Khoi ever communicated with them, through the insurmountable language barrier.

As a result, the very last Khoi-Khoi man, not Senna but Xi, in honour of his language and him probably being the very last of his kind, who would speak that language, which they believed was magic. It was a language that animals, birds, reptiles, insects, Ancestors and the wind, the rain and the sun, all understood. Xi linked the Khoi-Khoi with the natural world.

Thankfully, in the time of Shaka Zulu, Xi's Imali was noticed and recognised as a legitimate Imali or Outside Duty. He was a tracker and someone who tracked people who had gotten lost or were without water. The animals would come to tell him that there were people, of what tribe (the ones who wear the Impala skin headband who have a kind who wears the leopard skin) they were, how many people they were and exactly where they were. Xi and his ancestors had been tracking people,finding them and bringing them water for generations.

Shaka Zulu, being the nation builder that he was, recognised Xi's Imali as a legitimate Imali and so he was invited to the Zulu homestead. Upon arriving and speaking, through a translator called Mamma Sango, he indicated that he also had developed a Tabalaza or handmade product that was tradable for Tabalaza: this was a mattress of weaving palm tree leaves that had been secured and rendering hard but not brittle, by donkey and giraffe hoof glue. Xi stuffed this mattress with soft impepu bundles and so it made quite a nice, soft and comfortable bed.

Remember that before then, the Zulu slept on a grass mat that was rolled up when they were not sleeping. This may was rolled out on the packed dried mud floor of a homestead's individual khayas or kraals.

And so Shaka Zulu had promoted Xi to a Kazi person and the King just had to wait for the royal leopard couple to have a cub, which was when the Ancestors and nkulukulu authorised the giving of a Kazi or village. Usually, a Kazi would be given to a formation of men but Xi explained that he had been the last Khoi Khoi until a San woman had given birth to his son. His Royal Majesty understood that without a Kazi and a permanent home, that the Khoi had all but died out and promised Xi his own official Kazi, that because of his link to Nkulukulu, would be made an Imbewu or a Royal Nguni village at first opportunity.

So, although many Nguni peoples think of the Khoi Khoi as Bantu or de facto Nguni peoples, they were in actual fact, preliminarily promised a Kazi, which would be made Imbewu shortly after.