Surname · isiZulu · siSwati

Simelane

Carried by the amaZulu and emaSwati.

isiZulu

An isithakazelo of the amaZulu.

These are praise names, not a full recitation.

Magutshwa

A sinanatelo of the emaSwati, which the sources also call Swati.

Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.

IZITHAKAZELO ZAMAZULU directory, community-compiled (see sources)
Community compilation: iafrika.org
Community compilation: zuluring.blogspot.com
Community compilation: izithakazelo.blog
Community compilation: izithakazeloizibongo.blogspot.com
Community compilation: izithakazelo.wordpress.com
Swaziland Oral History Project, Royal series (A2): interview with Simbimba Ndlela at Embo State House, 1982, recorded…, 1982; printed 2016 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/SWOHP/ROYAL/1_Ndlela_Simbimba/WITS_SWOHP_ROY_1982_experimentalDraft_typescript_Ndlela_Simbimba_from_CH_floppy_disk1_A2760.pdf (endnote xxviii (reporting MATSEBULA1988 p.21)
Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (B9): interview with Simelane Simelane, koNtshingila, 6 May 1970, with…, 1970; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK3/(B9)SIME.pdf
Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (B9): interview with Simelane Simelane, koNtshingila, 6 May 1970, with…, 1970; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK3/(B9)SIME.pdf (endnote xxvii (recorded from Sidlane Simelane)
Thabani Thwala, The Politics of Placing Princes in Historical and Contemporary Swaziland (MA research report, supervisor Philip Bonner), 2013 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/FHYA%20Depot/Theses%20and%20Dissertations/Thwala_2013_The_Politics_of_Placing_Princes_in_Historical_and_Contemporary_Swaziland.pdf (pp.14-15 and WIKI_BEMDZABUKO)

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