Savimbi based support on his ethnic group, the Ovimbundu, about.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The author was for many years a missionary among the Ovimbundu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Angola] Reference

Ethnic groups: Ovimbundu 37\%, Kimbundu 25\%, Bakongo 13\%, mestico.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Ovimbundu, who compose about one-third of Angola's 10 million inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Ovimbundu people who were slain in Luanda immediately after the 1992 election.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Huambo is in the land of his people, the Ovimbundu, Angola's largest ethnic group.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Some families are divided; some educated urban Ovimbundu have come to terms with the MPLA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Angola] Reference

No Ovimbundu is on the politburo in Luanda and just three or four are on the central committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Angola] Reference

The region is home to the Savimbi's Ovimbundu people, the main supporters of his rebel movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Slave raiding between various Ovimbundu states, however, prevented the formation of a united front.    From Wordnik.com.  [1893] Reference

The Savimbis were members of the Ovimbundu farming people, who come from the Angolan central plateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Probably old ethnic allegiances would keep the Ovimbundu behind their bearded leader, but you could not be sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Angola] Reference

It is here, among his fellow Ovimbundu, that Savimbi must survive in the event of a cutoff of South African aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Angola] Reference

Meanwhile, an influential member of Savimbi's Ovimbundu tribe said Tuesday that the veteran guerrilla was bent on.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Savimbi commands much support among his Ovimbundu ethnic group, hoping to recapture the rebels 'provisional headquarters of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Ethnic divisions: Ovimbundu 37\%, Kimbundu 25\%, Bakongo 13\%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2\%, European 1\%, other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

It is noteworthy that he is an Ovimbundu, and a close relation of Jorge Sangumba, until 1982 UNITA's secretary for foreign affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Angola] Reference

Huambo is the fiefdom of the Ovimbundu tribe, which backs Savimbi, and represents more than half of Angola's 10.5 million inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The city is a stronghold of Savimbi's Ovimbundu ethnic group, which makes up more than two thirds of Angola's population of 10.5 million.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Bailundo revolt was spurred by a precipitous decline in the price of rubber, leading to conflict between Portuguese and Ovimbundu traders in Angola.    From Wordnik.com.  [1893] Reference

Although his Ovimbundu people are one of the three largest ethnic groups in the nation, Savmibi said dividing Angola along ethnic lines was out of the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Much of UNITA's top brass was selected from Savimbi's Ovimbundu tribe, but he always resisted the notion that the Angolan civil war was fought along tribal lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Benguela, in the territory of Savimbi's Ovimbundu tribe, was one of the few provinces where UNITA enjoyed victory in the parliamentary and presidential elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Much of UNITA's top brass was selected from Savimbi's Ovimbundu tribe, but he always resisted the notion that the Angolan civil war was fought along tribal fault lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Often looked down on by their northern compatriots in the capital, who treat them as a manual labour pool, the Ovimbundu account for almost 40 percent of the population.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Savimbi accused the government and the United Nations of forcing the rebels to accept peace on terms that were unfair, especially to members of Savimbi's Ovimbundu ethnic group.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Ethnic groups: Ovimbundu 37\%, Kimbundu 25\%, Bakongo 13\%, mixed racial 2\%, European 1\%.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Angola has three main ethnic groups, each speaking a Bantu language: Ovimbundu 37\%, Kimbundu 25\%, and Bakongo 13\%.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Unita's support among the Ovimbundu people of the central highlands is expected to help it gain a stronger foothold in Parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference

Ovimbundu 37\%, Kimbundu 25\%, Bakongo 13\%, mestico (mixed European and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Union for the Total Independence of Angola) supporters, including members of Savimbi's Ovimbundu tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Portugal conquered Ovimbundu kingdoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [1886] Reference

Savimbi is among his Ovimbundu people here.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Ovimbundu people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subject Index Page 57] Reference

Ovimbundu 37\%, Kimbundu 25\%, Bakongo 13\%, mestico (mixed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Languages: Portuguese (official), Ovimbundu, Kimbundu, Bakongo, and others.    From Wordnik.com. Reference