Isibongo · isiNdebele (Northern Ndebele)
Khumalo
Also spelled amaNtungwa, Mntungwa.
- PeopleamaNdebele (Matabeleland)
- Grouping Royal house of the Ndebele kingdom (Mzilikazi kaMashobane, Lobengula)
- Surnames recorded Khumalo
- Places recorded Matabeleland, Mhlahlandlela, Bulawayo, Entumbane, Matobo, Mzilikazi
- Branch Matabeleland
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Why It Is Not Here Yet
The rendering that was read: totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Izibongo zamaKhumalo; selected opening lines)
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About This Record
What Was Written Down
Ndlovu-Gatsheni describes a small Khumalo clan that grew into a nation by raiding, conquest and incorporation on the highveld and then the Zimbabwean plateau after about 1840, with the king and his relatives forming a royalty above the Zansi. He names Mncumbatha Khumalo as the kingdom's chief minister and lists Lobengula's brothers among the inner advisers. He also lists Khumalo among the Nguni izibongo by which the minority Zansi remained identifiable. totems.co.zw records a Khumalo praise set in Zimbabwe; the app already holds a longer verbatim Khumalo sequence from SIBAYA-NDEBELE-DOCX under the Zulu corpus. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.
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Where This Comes From
- Written down by
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- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Nation Building in Zimbabwe and the Challenges of Ndebele Particularism (African Journal on Conflict Resolution 8(3)…, 2008, ACCORD — https://www.accord.org.za/ajcr-issues/nation-building-in-zimbabwe-and-the-challenges-of-ndebele-particularism/
- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Who Ruled by the Spear? Rethinking the Form of Governance in the Ndebele State (African Studies Quarterly 10(2-3)), 2008, University of Florida Center for African Studies — https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/168/Ndlovu-Gatsheni-Vol10Issue23.pdf
- totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Izibongo zamaKhumalo)
- totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Izibongo zamaKhumalo; selected opening lines)
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