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Mazwaya

Also spelled Nondwane / Nondwana.

  • PeopleVatsonga
  • 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

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
  • Henri-Alexandre Junod, The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. I: The Social Life, Imprimerie Attinger Freres, Neuchatel — https://archive.org/details/lifeofsouthafric01junouoft

Recorded Alongside

  • Bila Also recorded among the Vatsonga.
  • Cawuke Also recorded among the Vatsonga.
  • Hlabi Also recorded among the Vatsonga.
  • Hlanganu Also recorded among the Vatsonga.
  • Hlungwani Also recorded among the Vatsonga.
  • Honwana Also recorded among the Vatsonga.

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