Sinanatelo · siSwati
Gwebu
This name is also recorded in isiNdebele (Northern Ndebele). See Gwebu clan names in every language.
- PeopleemaSwati
- Grouping Emakhandzambili
- Surnames recorded Gwebu
- Places recorded Originally, Nkomati, Lukhele, Shiselweni
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
About This Record
What Was Written Down
Kuper, as reported, marks the Gwebu as found ahead and as not intermarrying with the Shabangu, to whom they are related; Matsebula gives them a Pedi (beSutfu) origin. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.
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Where This Comes From
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- Swaziland Oral History Project: consolidated editorial endnotes and glossary, letters A to K — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK5/ENDNOTES.pdf
- Swaziland Oral History Project: consolidated editorial endnotes and glossary, letters A to K — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK5/ENDNOTES.pdf (and SWOHP_NHLABATSI endnote xxxviii (reporting KUPER1947 p.233 and MATSEBULA1988 p.21)
- Wikipedia contributors, Emakhandzambili (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emakhandzambili
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