Gazankulu was establish as a self-governing homeland for the Vatsonga people in 1973. The Vatsonga, a Bantu ethnic group, began migrating from Central Africa to Southern Africa as early as 200 AD. The current population of Vatsonga speakers numbers about 8 million and is evenly divided between Mozambique and South Africa.
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Ornithodoros moubata - The African hut tampan, also referred to as the eyeless tampan, is a soft tick in the Argasidae family; hard ticks are members of the Ixodidae family. Soft ticks have oval bodies with their head located under the body. Two long chitin barbs are used to pierce the skin of a host animal. There are several nymph cycles before reaching the adult stage and each one requires a blood meal. The African hut tampan is a primary carrier of the Borrelia virus, a virus responsible for causing relapsing fever in humans and the African swine fever in pigs.
