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Wozekhaya

Sinanatelo · siSwati

Shabangu

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Emakhandzambili
  • Surnames recorded Shabangu

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About This Record

What Was Written Down

Related to the Gwebu and, per Kuper as reported, found ahead in the country. Dingili Nkonyane recalled a tradition that the Shabangu came rolling from Tshontsho in a silulu (grain basket), a motif the interviewers associated with Sotho-derived origin accounts. 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 xxiv (reporting KUPER1947 p.233)

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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