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Maputju
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- Grouping Ronga group; independent sub-clan of Tembe
- Surnames recorded Tembe
- Places recorded South, Maputo, Mozambique, Maputaland
Also Spelled
Maputju is also written Mapute and Mabudu / Mabhudu.
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 that Maputju was the younger brother of Muhari of Tembe and made himself independent late in the eighteenth century, so his dynasty's list is short: Maputju, Muwayi, Makasana (1800-1850), Tlhuma, Musongi or Nozililo (1850), Ngwanazi (who fled to British Amatongaland after the Gungunyana war of 1895). The 1904 Mozambique Year Book counted 22,848 people in the Maputju circumscription. Wikipedia's Tembe article gives the same line as the Mabudu-Tembe branch: Mabudu (1764-1782), Mwayi, Makasana (1800-1854), Noziyingile (1854-1886), the regent Zambili Dlamini, then Ngwanase (1894-1928), whose descendants hold the Tembe Tribal Authority at Manguzi. 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
- Wikipedia contributors, Tembe (Southern African clan), read 2026-09-05, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tembe_(Southern_African_clan)
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