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Wozekhaya

Sinanatelo · siSwati

Nkhambule

Also spelled Nkambule, Nkambula.

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Emafikamuva
  • Surnames recorded Nkhambule, Nkambule
  • Places recorded Godlwako, Golela, Eswatini's, Lukhele, Shiselweni

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What Was Written Down

Matsebula, as reported, has the Nkhambule fleeing into Eswatini in Mswati II's reign and receiving protection; Kuper calls them a Sotho group among the late-comers. Several narrators instead say the Nkhambule of Godlwako sheltered an early Ngwane king and then joined the Ngwane, an older and friendlier relationship than the refugee account. Velebaleni Nkambule was a narrator on the pre-colonial meaning of chiefship. 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, Bonner series (B9): interview with Simelane Simelane, koNtshingila, 6 May 1970, with…, 1970; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK3/(B9)SIME.pdf
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (B9): interview with Simelane Simelane, koNtshingila, 6 May 1970, with…, 1970; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK3/(B9)SIME.pdf (endnote xxxiii and SWOHP_NDLELA1983 endnote xlix (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, Emafikamuva (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emafikamuva

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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