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Sibaya

Sinanatelo · siSwati

Simelane

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Bemdzabuko
  • Surnames recorded Simelane
  • Places recorded Hlatikulu, Zandondo, Nkayanene, Utrecht

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Swaziland Oral History Project — edited transcripts and editorial endnotes, Wits Historical Papers A2760 (interviews 1968–1987; typescripts printed 2016 and 2021)

In copyright. The tinanatelo here were read out of SWOHP's edited typescripts and the editorial team's endnotes. The recitations belong to the narrators and their families; the edited transcription and the apparatus around it are a recent editorial work and are in copyright. The eMandulo platform's own label is a platform term applied by a non-rightsholder and determines nothing.

The rendering that was read: 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 xxvii (recorded from Sidlane Simelane, Hamilton series 1983)

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About This Record

What Was Written Down

The Simelane narrator said his people came from the Empangeni region of Zululand, lived south of the Phongolo where their chief Mabonya was killed, and were brought into kaNgwane carrying the child heir Bhozongo; Sidlane Simelane placed their origin at Nkalaneni near Magudu. Bonner has them fleeing Zwide to Ndvungunye. Two Simelane sisters, Somnjalose and Lojiba, were given to Ndvungunye, and one of them (sources differ on which) bore Sobhuza I. The king placed the Simelane at koNtshingila as a door against invasion from the south; their regiment under Mbiko fought at Lubuya. They are said to be related to the Maseko and to identify as Ntungwa. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.

Families Tell This Differently

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Where This Comes From

Written down by
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Royal series (A2): interview with Simbimba Ndlela at Embo State House, 1982, recorded…, 1982; printed 2016 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/SWOHP/ROYAL/1_Ndlela_Simbimba/WITS_SWOHP_ROY_1982_experimentalDraft_typescript_Ndlela_Simbimba_from_CH_floppy_disk1_A2760.pdf (endnote xxviii (reporting MATSEBULA1988 p.21)
  • 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 xxvii (recorded from Sidlane Simelane)
  • 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 and WIKI_BEMDZABUKO)
  • 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 xxvii (recorded from Sidlane Simelane, Hamilton series 1983)

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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