Surname · isiXhosa · isiNdebele (Southern Ndebele)
Skhosana
Also spelled Sikhosana, Skosana, Masombuka.
Carried by the amaXhosa and amaNdebele (Southern).
isiXhosa
An isiduko of the amaXhosa.
- PeopleamaXhosa
Recorded Praise Names
These are praise names, not a full recitation.
SkhosanaNozuluNtuthwanaMusi ka Mhlanga NovaphiMntungwaPhangele Two versions are recorded and neither has been chosen. Where community sources differ on a praise, both readings are kept. A regional form and a transcription slip are indistinguishable to anyone who is not a first-language reader.
Part of Iziduko: Xhosa clan names
isiNdebele (Southern Ndebele)
An isibongo of the amaNdebele (Southern), which the sources also call Southern Ndebele.
- PeopleamaNdebele (Southern)
- Grouping Senior son of Musi; lineages found in the Ndzundza grouping
- Surnames recorded Skhosana, Sikhosana, Skosana, Masombuka
- Places recorded Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Winterveld, KwaMsiza
- Branch Southern
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- izithakazelo.blog/iziduko-zamaxhosa/ (read 2026-08-23)
- nivile.co.za/iziduko.html (read 2026-08-23) — independent cross-check
- 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/
- 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/ (Iinanazelo zakwaSkhosana (Masindakulu)
- Pathisa Nyathi, Names and naming: Mabhena history captured in names (Sunday News column), 2020-02-23, Zimpapers (Sunday News / heraldonline.co.zw) — https://www.heraldonline.co.zw/names-and-naming-mabhena-history-captured-in-names/
- South African History Online, The Ndebele in history (article A-0063369; project researched by Franco Frescura), 2011 (updated 2026), South African History Online — https://sahistory.org.za/article/ndebele-history
- Wikipedia contributors, Southern Ndebele people, read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ndebele_people
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