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The Venda are a Southern Africa
Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, consisting of numerous territories....
n people living mostly near the South African-Zimbabwean border.








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The Venda are a Southern Africa
Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, consisting of numerous territories....
n people living mostly near the South African-Zimbabwean border.

History

The Venda were originally from either the Congo
Congolian forests

The Congolian forests are a broad belt of lowland tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests which extends across the basin of the Congo River and its tributaries in Central Africa....
 or the Great Rift Valley
Great Rift Valley

The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trough, approximately in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in East Africa....
, migrating across the Limpopo river
Limpopo River

The Limpopo River rises in central southern Africa, and flows generally eastwards to the Indian Ocean. It is around long, with a drainage basin in size....
 during the Bantu expansion
Bantu expansion

The Bantu expansion was a millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu languages language group. This group is hypothesized to have originated from the southwestern border of modern Nigeria and Cameroon....
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