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Lebombo
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- Grouping Ronga group; earlier ruling house of Nondwane, later counsellors under the Mazwaya
- Surnames recorded Libombo
- Places recorded Western, Nkomati, Mozambique
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Libombola Ndlopfu Also Spelled
Lebombo is also written Libombo and Mina Lebombo.
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
Junod records a chief from the Lebombo hills called Lebombo who settled on the western side of the estuary before 1500 almost without fighting, whom Perestrello met in 1554, and whose descendants were kept as tinduna when the Mazwaya conquered the country. He heads Junod's Nondwane genealogy. Junod's Appendix V tells the case of Spoon Libombo, a Nondwane man, to illustrate the lobola law. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.
Where This Comes From
- Written down by
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- Henri-Alexandre Junod, The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. I: The Social Life, Imprimerie Attinger Freres, Neuchatel — https://archive.org/details/lifeofsouthafric01junouoft
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