Though the ANC encompasses all races, it is dominated by members of the Xhosa tribe.

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His father was a trader who dealt with blacks, and Donald spoke the local language, Xhosa, fluently.

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Project manager Imke Siefkes says Rabobi (which means "Spiderman" in South Africa's Xhosa language) doesn't cause any problems.

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She sang in every language under the sun, including her own Xhosa unknown to Americans at that time.

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The staccato and oddly dispassionate voices of translators, conveying testimony often given in Xhosa, Sotho or Zulu, added detail upon hideous detail.

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No one can afford not to have creative staff who speak Tswana and Xhosa, notes Sipho Luthuli, of Azaguys, an up-and-coming black agency.

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Meanwhile, a film version of Bizet's opera Carmen - translated into the South African language Xhosa - has received a warm reception at the festival.

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The village assemblies exist among various African tribes including: the Ashanti of Ghana, the Igbo of Nigeria, the Somali, the Tswana of Botswana, the Shona of Zimbabwe, the Xhosa and the Zulu of South Africa.

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An older woman approaches Motsepe and nearly swoons, grasping his arm and laying her head on his chest as he pats her back and murmurs thank you in Xhosa, one of the six African languages he speaks.

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