xhosas

Xhosa but not like in American movies.

I don’t speak Tamil, or Slovenian, or Xhosa.

It is a custom in South Africa that those who visit the local township and interact with the community are given a traditional South African Xhosa name.

Virgil Prins, who speaks English, Afrikaans and Xhosa, notes that whites are impatient for punchlines; black audiences enjoy the journey as much as the destination.

It effectively  abolished communal ownership altogether in the region, dispossessing a large number of Xhosa, and instituting a labour tax to force them into White-owned businesses.

There, they engaged in brutal resource wars against the Xhosa and Zulu inhabitants of the  region, and carved out two independent states, known as the Boer Republics.

This is not unlike that common gag in Britain that begins, " An Englishman, an Irishman and Scotsman walk into a bar." Instead, in the South African version, it is a Pedi, a Zulu and a Xhosa walking into a shebeen, or a speakeasy.