Whence Are the Kalanga: The Origins of the Kalanga Nation Traced and the Question of Semitic Blood Addressed
We probably by now already have a clue as to the likely origins of the Kalanga from reading the previous chapters. We heard from Professor Motshekga that the Kalanga originate in northeast Africa. Bakgalaka chief, Chief Mongatane of Polokwan e claims Kalanga origins in Arabia. The Mwali Religion, which we have looked at in the previous chapter, gives us perhaps the biggest hint that shows North East African (NEA) and/or Ancient Near East (ANE) origins of the Kalanga. These are just the few hints that we have that tell us something of the origins of the Kalanga. But that is not all. We have encountered a number of statements made by several writers from the 19th and 20th centuries claiming that in Kalanga blood flows Semitic and/or Jewish DNA, thus linking them with peoples from the ANE/NEA. Let us take a look at some of these statements, many of which we encountered in Chapter Five, beginning with Dr Theal. He wrote in 1907: Of all the Bantu they [the Kalanga] had the largest...