The Xhosa, popularly known as the "Red Blanket People," share Nguni ancestry with the Zulu.
Xhosa, Tembu, and Bomvana traditionally wore red and ochre ("the red ones").
The Xhosa, Tembu, and Bomvana preferred red and ochre ("the red ones").
They speak mutually intelligible Xhosa, a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family, as southern Nguni.
The Cape Frontier Wars pitted Xhosa against European immigrants in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
One hundred years were spent by the Xhosa peoples in their fight against the colonists from Cape Town.
However, they were ultimately vanquished, and the Cape Colony eventually took their territory.