Vendan.adj.

1890 E. Reclus Afr. IV. vi. 206 In the western, northern, and northeastern provinces they [sc. the aborigines] are still constituted in distinct political and social groups. Such are the Ba-Rolongs, the Ba-Tlapis,..Ba-Vendas, and Ba-Soetlas, all of whom belong to the great Basuto.]

1901 Sunday at Home,1900–1901 326/1 The German missionaries who had taken in hand the fierce Vendas of the Zoutpansberg, gave them the right hand of fellowship.

1912 H. A. Junod Life S. Afr. Tribe I. i. i. 18 We find colonies of emigrated Thonga in many parts of the Transvaal. The largest is in the Spelonken district... There they are called Magwamba by the Venda and Bvesha who possessed the country before them.

1950 I. Schapera in A. R. Radcliffe-Brown & D. Forde Afr. Syst. Kinship & Marriage 144 Paternal aunts..do not command anything like the great authority they are said to possess among the Venda.

1977 Times 23 Nov. 20/8 We are oppressed..not as Zulus, Xhosas, Vendas or Indians. We are oppressed because we are black.

1908 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 7 412 Venda. Spoken by the Bavenda in North Transvaal.

1937 I. Schapera Bantu-speaking Tribes S. Afr. viii. 174 At the head of the whole tribe is the Chief (Nguni, inkosi; Shangana-Tonga, hosi; Venda, khosi; Sotho, morêna, kxosi).

1979 J. Drummond I saw him Die vii. 74 She began talking in some dialect I didn't understand—Venda, perhaps.

1913 H. A. Junod Life S. Afr. Tribe II. vi. i. 327 There is a third tradition relating to the first man, but it has..been borrowed from the Venda or Pedi tribes.

1921 S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. Apr. 208 All these Venda clans (and the Malemba also) speak of their mountain.

1931 H. A. Stayt BaVenda p. xi These boys..were familiar with the whole country and understood the different Venda dialects.

1979 Guardian Weekly 12 Aug. 6/3 In last year's general election, Chief Mphephu's ruling Venda National Party was decisively defeated by the Opposition Venda Independence Party.