Xai Xai

The lower Limpopo spreads across a broad floodplain before reaching the Indian Ocean. Sand dunes rise above the low-lying land, and river and sea together shape the waterways near the coast. In the 1820s Soshangane established the Gaza kingdom in the wider Limpopo country. His residence stood in the lower valley from 1827 to 1834, during a period when the movement of armies and communities was reshaping power across southeastern Africa.