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Sinanatelo · siSwati

Fakudze

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Bemdzabuko
  • Surnames recorded Fakudze
  • Places recorded Eswatini, Mpaka, Macetjeni, Lubombo

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Swaziland Oral History Project — edited transcripts and editorial endnotes, Wits Historical Papers A2760 (interviews 1968–1987; typescripts printed 2016 and 2021)

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The rendering that was read: Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (A6): interview with Mandlabovu Fakudze, 1970, with endnotes, 1970; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A6)FAKU.pdf (narrator Mandlabovu Fakudze, p.94-95 of the transcript; endnote xxxii confirms Mntolo as a sinanatelo of the Fakudze)

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About This Record

What Was Written Down

Both Kuper and Matsebula, as reported by the SWOHP editors, list the Fakudze among the true Swazi who came with the Dlamini. Fakudze men have repeatedly held high office and served as tindvuna (governors) of royal residences: Mngayi Fakudze commanded the Swazi at the battle of Lubuya against the Zulu around 1839, and Maboya Fakudze governed Nkanini under Sobhuza II. Thwala 2013 uses the Fakudze of Macetjeni as a case study in the modern imposition of a Dlamini prince over a non-Dlamini chiefdom. 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
  • 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_FAKUDZE (reporting KUPER1947 p.233 and MATSEBULA1988 p.1)
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (A6): interview with Mandlabovu Fakudze, 1970, with endnotes, 1970; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A6)FAKU.pdf
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (A6): interview with Mandlabovu Fakudze, 1970, with endnotes, 1970; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A6)FAKU.pdf (narrator Mandlabovu Fakudze)
  • Thabani Thwala, The Politics of Placing Princes in Historical and Contemporary Swaziland (MA research report, supervisor Philip Bonner), 2013 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/FHYA%20Depot/Theses%20and%20Dissertations/Thwala_2013_The_Politics_of_Placing_Princes_in_Historical_and_Contemporary_Swaziland.pdf (pp.14-15)
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (A6): interview with Mandlabovu Fakudze, 1970, with endnotes, 1970; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A6)FAKU.pdf (narrator Mandlabovu Fakudze, p.94-95 of the transcript; endnote xxxii confirms Mntolo as a sinanatelo of the Fakudze)

Recorded Alongside

  • Bhembe Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Dladla Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Dlamini Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Dvuba Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Gama Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Gamedze Also recorded among the emaSwati.

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