Surname · Xitsonga
Valoyi
Also spelled Baloyi, Ba-ka-Baloyi, Baloi, Vaka Valoyi, Thevu / Mathevula.
A xivongo of the Vatsonga, recorded in Xitsonga, which the sources also call Tsonga.
Xitsonga
- PeopleVatsonga
- Totem mfenhe (baboon) — Malungana: the people of hosi N'wamitwa in Ritavi and other Valoyi sub-clans go
- Grouping N'walungu (Nwalungu) group (Junod); VaRozvi cluster with Makaringe, Mukansi and Mathevula (Wikipedia, uncited)
- Surnames recorded Baloyi, Valoyi, Mathevula / Mathebula, Makaringe, Mukansi, N'wamitwa
- Places recorded Limpopo-Olifants, Mozambique, Ritavi, Mariveni, N'wamitwa, Bolobedu, Modjadji, Limpopo
Part of Swivongo: Tsonga clan names
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- Henri-Alexandre Junod, The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. I: The Social Life, Imprimerie Attinger Freres, Neuchatel — https://archive.org/details/lifeofsouthafric01junouoft
- Shidjabadjaba John Malungana, Vuphato: Praise Poetry in Xitsonga (D.Litt. et Phil. thesis), 1994 — https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Vuphato---praise-poetry-in/9913242107691
- Wikipedia contributors, Tsonga people, read 2026-09-05, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsonga_people
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