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Manyisa
- PeopleVatsonga
- Grouping Ronga group, transitional to Dzonga (Junod)
- Surnames recorded Manyisa
- Places recorded Nkomati, Mozambique
Also Spelled
Manyisa is also written Manhisa.
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 places the Manyisa and Shirindja clans north of the Mazwaya as the transition between Ronga and Dzonga speech, notes that Perestrello in 1554 named a river and chief Manhisa, and identifies that river with the Nkomati where it crosses the Manyisa country. Manyisa people had settled in Rikatla under their own headman by the 1890s. The 1904 Year Book counted 24,183 people in the Manyisa circumscription. 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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- 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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