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Sibaya

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Xesibe

  • PeopleamaXesibe
  • RegionMount Ayliff, Eastern Cape & southern KwaZulu-Natal

Recorded Praise Names

These are praise names, not a full recitation.

SnamaRhaduCwerhaNuneMbathaneMatshaya

The History Behind This Name

As written down by the people named at the end.

The amaXesibe live in the north-eastern Eastern Cape and the southern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, and are counted among the abaMbo kin of the amaMpondo and amaMpondomise. Their best-known descendant nation is the amaQwathi, founded by Mtshutshumbe kaMthetho, who split away and settled in Thembuland.

Wikipedia's article on the amaXesibe is a stub: it records the people, the region and the practice of intwaso, but not the chiefly line. Nothing further is claimed here.

Recorded from: WIKIPEDIA (Xesibe); AMAXHOSA-WP

Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.

About This Record

What Was Written Down

The izithakazelo.blog directory records the amaXesibe as made up of several clans rather than one.

Where This Comes From

Written down by
  • izithakazelo.blog/iziduko-zamaxhosa/ (read 2026-08-23)

Recorded Alongside

  • Mambi Also recorded among the amaXesibe.
  • Matshaya Also recorded among the amaXesibe.

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