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Sinanatelo · siSwati

Mndzebele

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Bemdzabuko
  • Surnames recorded Mndzebele
  • Places recorded Hlatikulu, Mkhitsini

Also Spelled

Mndzebele is also written Mndebele.

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What Was Written Down

Kuper, as reported, places the Mndzebele among those who reached southern Eswatini at about the same time as the royal Ngwane and relates them to the Hlophe. LaMndzebele (LaKubheka, also called LaMelusi), daughter of Kubheka Mndzebele, is recorded by Matsebula as the wife of Ngwane and mother of Ndvungunye; Lobamba in the south was her residence. 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, Royal series (A2): interview with Simbimba Ndlela at Embo State House, 1982, recorded…, 1982; printed 2016 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/SWOHP/ROYAL/1_Ndlela_Simbimba/WITS_SWOHP_ROY_1982_experimentalDraft_typescript_Ndlela_Simbimba_from_CH_floppy_disk1_A2760.pdf
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Royal series (A2): interview with Simbimba Ndlela at Embo State House, 1982, recorded…, 1982; printed 2016 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/SWOHP/ROYAL/1_Ndlela_Simbimba/WITS_SWOHP_ROY_1982_experimentalDraft_typescript_Ndlela_Simbimba_from_CH_floppy_disk1_A2760.pdf (endnote xiii (reporting KUPER1947 p.233)

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