FINGOES, a collective name applied to a number of Bantu speaking tribes who formerly inhabited the greater part of Natal, but most of whom now live scattered about in the Eastern Province and Native Territories of the Cape. The best-known are the amaBele, amaHlubi and amaZizi, but they include many others who were broken up and dispersed in the great inter-tribal wars at the beginning of the i9th century. The name is derived from amaFengu, "wanderers." Culturally they belong to the eastern division of Southern Bantu (see SOUTH AFRICA: Ethnology), but their tribal organization has been almost completely disintegrated, and they have advanced in the adoption of European culture.