Isibongo · isiNdebele (Southern Ndebele)
Mhwaduba
- PeopleamaNdebele (Southern)
- Grouping Son of Musi; Sothoised line (Bakgatla ba Lekhuleni / Hwaduba)
- Surnames recorded Lekhuleni
- Places recorded Hammanskraal, Khwadubeng, Moretele, Gauteng-North West
- Branch Southern
Also Spelled
Mhwaduba is also written Mrhwaduba, Hwaduba and Lekhuleni.
Spellings differ between families, between records and between countries. Wozekhaya keeps the name as each source wrote it rather than settling on one form.
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
About This Record
What Was Written Down
Skhosana relays Van Warmelo's account: the Hwaduba are Musi's direct descendants who stayed near KwaMnyamana, moved to the Apies River and Wonderboompoort, suffered under Mzilikazi in the time of chief Pete, and returned to Khwadubeng near Hammanskraal, where by 1880-90 only the oldest people still used Ndebele; today they speak a Kgatla type of Tswana. Wikipedia and iAfrika give the modern surname as Lekhuleni. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.
Families Tell This Differently
Families who carry this name tell parts of it differently. Each way it has been told is below.
Where This Comes From
- Written down by
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- iAfrika (community directory, uncredited contributors), iAfrika - isiNdebele section, category 'Umlando neenanazelo' (history and clan praises), including Umlando wamaNdebel…, 2025 (post dates), iafrika.org — https://iafrika.org/nr/category/umlando-neenanazelo/
- Philemon Buti Skhosana, The linguistic relationship between Southern and Northern Ndebele (PhD thesis, chapters 1-2 read), 2009, University of Pretoria (UPSpace repository) — https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/28563/01chapters1-2.pdf (citing Van Warmelo 1930)
- Wikipedia contributors, Southern Ndebele people, read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ndebele_people
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