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Sinanatelo · siSwati

Shongwe

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping disputed: Emakhandzambili (Wikipedia citing Matsebula) | Bemdzabuko (Wikipedia uncited list)
  • Surnames recorded Shongwe
  • Places recorded KaShongwe, Nkomati, Mgwenya, Ngwavuma, Bulunga

Your Family's Praise Belongs Here

This clan has a praise. It is not on this page yet, and that is our doing, not anything about your family or the praise itself. If the people at home still say it, you can put the true one here.

Why It Is Not Here Yet

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 BAKASHONGWE)

A praise belongs to the families who recite it, not to whoever wrote it down. A siSwati-speaking family that still holds this one holds the better version of it, and can put that version on this page.

Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.

About This Record

What Was Written Down

The two Wikipedia lists disagree and neither is preferred here. The community blog groups Shongwe with Kunene, Madvonsela, Hleta and Sikhondze as emaTimandze, gives an origin at Ngwavuma where the Phongolo meets the sea, a flight from Dingiswayo or Zwide to Bulunga where Sobhuza I found them, and a chief Matsafeni Shongwe given a northern liphakelo after the defeat of the Sotho, succeeded by Matsamo, who died in 1925. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.

Families Tell This Differently

Families who carry this name tell parts of it differently. Each way it has been told is below.

Where This Comes From

Written down by
  • Anonymous blog administrator, Tinanatelo (community blog, 116 posts of June 2018), 2018, Blogger — http://tinanatelo.blogspot.com/2018/06/ (post BAKASHONGWE)
  • Wikipedia contributors, Emakhandzambili (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emakhandzambili
  • Wikipedia contributors, Emakhandzambili (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emakhandzambili (versus WIKI_SWAZI_PEOPLE)

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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