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The great tribal wars to the southeast between the Mashona and the fierce Matabele were only a distant rumbling.

From Time Magazine Archive

With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Samuel Songo, a Mashona tribesman of Southern Rhodesia, has a left arm that is like a magnificent piece of ebony sculpture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not since the Matabele and Mashona uprisings against Cecil Rhodes' white settlers in the 1890s had Rhodesian whites felt so threatened.

From Time Magazine Archive

A white boy with fair hair, aged nine or ten, carried a Mashona baby in a goat's skin strapped to his back.

From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly