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Wozekhaya

Sinanatelo · siSwati

Mdluli

Also spelled Ndluli.

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Bemdzabuko
  • Surnames recorded Mdluli
  • Places recorded Mhlosheni, Mahamba, Mashobeni

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The rendering that was read: Anonymous blog administrator, Tinanatelo (community blog, 116 posts of June 2018), 2018, Blogger — http://tinanatelo.blogspot.com/2018/06/ (post Tinanatelo MDLULI)

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What Was Written Down

Kuper's table, as reported, makes the Mdluli true Swazi and relates them to the Nkonyane and Lukhele. Simelane Simelane said the Mdluli arrived with the Ngwane and were already in the country when the Simelane came. Mshengu Mdluli was sent by Mswati II to Mashobeni to barricade the country against Zulu attack. LaBotsibeni (Gwamile) Mdluli, wife of Mbandzeni, mother of Bhunu and queen regent from 1899 to 1921, was of this clan. Thwala 2013 lists the Mdluli among the powerful southern chiefdoms over which Mbandzeni placed Dlamini princes. 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: interview with Mshange and Dingili Nkonyane, Zombodze, 31 July 1983…, 1983; printed 2016 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/SWOHP/HAMILTON/9_Nkonyane_Mshange/WITS_SWOHP_HAM_19830731_experimentalDraft_typescript_Nkonyane_Mshange_from_CH_floppy_disk3_A2760.pdf
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Hamilton series: interview with Mshange and Dingili Nkonyane, Zombodze, 31 July 1983…, 1983; printed 2016 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/SWOHP/HAMILTON/9_Nkonyane_Mshange/WITS_SWOHP_HAM_19830731_experimentalDraft_typescript_Nkonyane_Mshange_from_CH_floppy_disk3_A2760.pdf (endnote viii (reporting KUPER1947 p.233)
  • Anonymous blog administrator, Tinanatelo (community blog, 116 posts of June 2018), 2018, Blogger — http://tinanatelo.blogspot.com/2018/06/ (post Tinanatelo MDLULI)

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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