Patrilineal primogeniture prevailed among the Xhosa ("each eldest son, upon the death of his father, inherits all the property appertaining to his mother's house"THE TRANSKEIAN TERRITORIES OF SOUTH AFRICA: NOTES ON NATIVE LAW AND CUSTOMS Afr Aff (Lond) (1925) XXIV (XCV): 213-218 URL the Pondo,The Effects of Contact with Europeans on the Status of Pondo Women Monica Hunter Africa / Volume 6 / Issue 03 / July 1933, pp 259 276 DOI: 10.2307/1155677, Published online: 21 August 2012 URL the Tswana,TSWANA URL Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom Written By I. Schapera URL the URL the Swazi,Societal Inequalities: Intestate Succession under Swazi Customary Law URL by Phakama ShiliThe Swazi: a South African Kingdom Written by Hilda Kuper URL the Zulus, the Sotho, the Tsonga, the Venda and most other southern Bantu peoples; among them in general the first son was conceived of as superior to his siblings. As Hoernlé states, "Among the children a strict hierarchy prevails, based on the seniority which serves as a fundamental principle of behaviour in Bantu society. The elder brother always takes precedence between brothers, and so, too, between sisters the privilege of age is maintained. Between brothers and sisters the sex differentiation often dominates the behaviour. Sisterhood and brotherhood most often overrule age differences, and there is a prescribed type of behaviour for a brother towards his sister and vice versa. Outside this intimate circle of the immediate family, the same principles of kinship and seniority hold sway. The father forms one of a close-knit group with his brothers. The latter are everywhere grouped under a kinship term which we may translate "father"; and these "fathers" are distinguished as "great" or "little" fathers, according as they are older or younger than the child's own father". A. WInifred Hoernlé, "Social Organisation" in I. Schapera (ed.), The Bantu-speaking Tribes of South Africa (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1937), p. 71. Van Warmelo writes, "Bantu social structure knows no equals, as with whole sibs, so with individuals. The first-born of the same parents is always superior to those born after him, and this superiority is extended to his descendants, with varying consistency."N.J. van Warmelo, Kinship Terminology of the SOuth African Bantu (Pretoria Department of Native Affairs, Union of South Africa, 1931), p. 11.
Patrilineal primogeniture prevailed among the Xhosa ("each eldest son, upon the death of his father, inherits all the property appertaining to his mother's house"THE TRANSKEIAN TERRITORIES OF SOUTH AFRICA: NOTES ON NATIVE LAW AND CUSTOMS Afr Aff (Lond) (1925) XXIV (XCV): 213-218 URL the Pondo,The Effects of Contact with Europeans on the Status of Pondo Women Monica Hunter Africa / Volume 6 / Issue 03 / July 1933, pp 259 276 DOI: 10.2307/1155677, Published online: 21 August 2012 URL the Tswana,TSWANA URL Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom Written By I. Schapera URL the URL the Swazi,Societal Inequalities: Intestate Succession under Swazi Customary Law URL by Phakama ShiliThe Swazi: a South African Kingdom Written by Hilda Kuper URL the Zulus, the Sotho, the Tsonga, the Venda and most other southern Bantu peoples; among them in general the first son was conceived of as superior to his siblings. As Hoernlé states, "Among the children a strict hierarchy prevails, based on the seniority which serves as a fundamental principle of behaviour in Bantu society. The elder brother always takes precedence between brothers, and so, too, between sisters the privilege of age is maintained. Between brothers and sisters the sex differentiation often dominates the behaviour. Sisterhood and brotherhood most often overrule age differences, and there is a prescribed type of behaviour for a brother towards his sister and vice versa. Outside this intimate circle of the immediate family, the same principles of kinship and seniority hold sway. The father forms one of a close-knit group with his brothers. The latter are everywhere grouped under a kinship term which we may translate "father"; and these "fathers" are distinguished as "great" or "little" fathers, according as they are older or younger than the child's own father". Winifred Hoernlé, "Social Organisation" in I. Schapera (ed.), The Bantu-speaking Tribes of South Africa (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1937), p. 71. Van Warmelo writes, "Bantu social structure knows no equals, as with whole sibs, so with individuals. The first-born of the same parents is always superior to those born after him, and this superiority is extended to his descendants, with varying consistency."N.J. van Warmelo, Kinship Terminology of the SOuth African Bantu (Pretoria Department of Native Affairs, Union of South Africa, 1931), p. 11.
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