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Matjolo

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  • Grouping Ronga group; Ronga proper with Mpfumo
  • Places recorded West, Maputo, Mozambique, Mi-Tembe, Tembe

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Junod records Matjolo as a son of Nhlaruti and brother of Mpfumo; the two clans, once one under Nhlaruti, separated and became hostile. He gives the Tembe-Mapute and Mpfumo-Matjolo splits as examples of how small Bantu chiefdoms divide when they grow. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.

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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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