Fengu-Pondo
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| Similar Types | Chopi-Tswana, Malagasid, Xhosaid, South Bantuid |
| Group | Bantuid |
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Description
Bantuid variety, similar to South Bantuid, but with weak Khoisan influence, placing it closer to Xhosaid. Developed as a result of the Bantu expansion when Bantu assimilated some older Khoisanid elements. Found especially in the eastern provinces of South Africa, e.g. Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Free State, also Lesotho and Southern Mozambique. Common in Fengu, Pondo, and Hlubi, but also in some neighbouring groups.[1]
Physical Traits
Yellowish dark, sometimes medium brown skin, usually kinky, sometimes peppercorn hair. Rather tall, often mesoskelic, mesomorph to endomorph. Often mesocephalic, sometimes dolichocephalic, chamae- orthocranic with wider and lower skulls than other Bantuids. Platyrrhine, lips rather full. Prognathy modest, pseudo-Mongoloid eyes in a few cases.