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Mazwaya
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- Grouping Ronga group; ruling clan of Nondwane on both sides of the Nkomati estuary
- Surnames recorded Masinga, Tjakame, Hlewane, Matinana, Makaneta, Ngomane
- Places recorded Nondwane, Nkomati, Maputo, Mozambique, Morakwen, Rikatla
The Swiphato swa swivongo
Makaneta, nwa yindlu ya ntimaMasinga: wa le hondjosinMatinana / Ngomane: Nkandjetele wa ku woma, ku baleka minambyana Also Spelled
Mazwaya is also written Nondwane / Nondwana.
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's most detailed clan account. The Nondwane country was first held by three clans without iron or shields, the Mahlangwan, Honwana and Nkumba; a chief called Lebombo settled there before 1500; then the Mazwaya conquered the whole country and placed sons and relatives as petty chiefs (tihosana) with the old Lebombo chiefs as counsellors. Each branch took its own laudatory name: Mazwaya Masinga (the main branch near Morakwen), Mazwaya Tjakame, Mazwaya Hlewane, Mazwaya Matinana, Mazwaya Makaneta. The kingship passed from the Masinga to the Matinana branch and, after the war of 1904, to the Hlewane. Junod's Nondwane list runs Libombo, Masinga, Ngomana, Matinana, Makwakwa, Papele, Khobete (rebelled against the Portuguese in 1859), Mapunga, Mahazule. He describes how a sub-clan ancestor (Makaneta) comes to replace the clan founder (Mazwaya) in daily use, and how immigrants of Tembe, Shibu. 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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