Tsonga

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The Tsonga are a group of loosely related Bantu-speaking people living in southern Mozambique and the Northern Province of South Africa. Traditional Tsonga subsistence depended on agriculture practiced by women. With the expansion of mining in South Africa, labor migration has become an important source of income for many rural families. Commercial Tsonga farmers in South African benefited from improved market access, while Mozambican Tsonga suffered from protracted civil wars.

Identifier

Region

• Africa

Subregion

• Southern Africa

Subsistence Type

• agro-pastoralists

Samples

• EA
• SCCS

Countries

• Mozambique
• South Africa

External Links

• Tsonga (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Tsonga (Standard Cross-Cultural Sample) D-PLACE