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Sibaya

Sinanatelo · siSwati

Maseko

Also spelled Ngcamane.

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Emakhandzambili
  • Surnames recorded Maseko
  • Places recorded Eswatini, Nqabaneni, Ncabaneni, Kazondwako, Hhohho

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About This Record

What Was Written Down

Matsebula, as reported, has Sobhuza I finding the Maseko at Nqabaneni under Cece, son of Khubonye, submitting without resistance and going north with him. Thwala 2013, following Bonner, tells the darker sequel: Sobhuza gave his daughter Lambombotsi to Mgazi waCece, and when Mgazi made a Ndzimandze woman his chief wife instead, the Maseko warriors were killed at a hunting party and Mgazi executed, though the clan kept some autonomy. Bonner counts them among the most powerful groups Sobhuza met. The Simelane say they are related to the Maseko, who preceded them. 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, Hamilton series (A22): interview with Simbimba Ndlela, 27 July 1983, with endnotes, 1983; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A22)SIM.pdf
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (B8): interview with Nyandza Nhlabatsi and Tomoyi Dlamini, kaZameya, 21… — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK3/(B8)NHLA.pdf (endnote xli and SWOHP_NDLELA1983 endnote lv (reporting KUPER1947 p.233)
  • 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)
  • Wikipedia contributors, Emakhandzambili (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emakhandzambili

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.
  • Fakudze Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Gama Also recorded among the emaSwati.

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