matabele in English
noun
1
the Ndebele people collectively, particularly those of Zimbabwe.
Today it is the Matabele in Zimbabwe who are particularly suffering.
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1. Jews were among the earliest pioneers in Bulawayo. The first white child born there (April 1894) was Jewish, and the first newspaper (March 1894), the Matabele Times and Mining Journal, was owned and edited by a Jew, William Francis Wallenstein.
2. In 1942, Matabele was torpedoed and sunk by U-454 in the Barents Sea and Maori was hit in the engine room by a bomb whilst lying in Grand Harbour, Valletta, in February, catching fire and later blowing up where she lay.