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Sinanatelo · siSwati

Vilakati

Also spelled Vilakazi.

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping disputed: Emafikamuva (Kuper) | Emakhandzambili (Simbimba Ndlela)
  • Surnames recorded Vilakati, Vilakazi
  • Places recorded Eswatini, Mahamba

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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)

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The rendering that was read: 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 ix (first form, from Richard Patrick); TINANATELO_BLOGSPOT post Tinanatelo Vilakati (second form)

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About This Record

What Was Written Down

Kuper's table, as reported, classes the Vilakati as Nguni late-comers, while the Ndlela narrator classes them as found in place; the SWOHP editors record the contradiction without resolving it, and so does this entry. Simbimba Ndlela's account has Hlubi incorporating the Vilakati south of the Phongolo. The Vilakati are related to the Nkonyane and Mdluli and share the praise name Mphephetse; the editors report from Richard Patrick that the Vilakati do not eat the herb liphephetse. Josiah Vilakati was recognised as chief of Mahamba mission station in 1932 (THWALA2013). 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 ix (first form)
  • 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 x and SWOHP_HLATSHWAKO endnote xvi (reporting KUPER1947 p.234 as labafik'emuva of Nguni origin) versus SWOHP_NDLELA1983 endnote lii (Ndlela calls them emakhandzambili)
  • Anonymous blog administrator, Tinanatelo (community blog, 116 posts of June 2018), 2018, Blogger — http://tinanatelo.blogspot.com/2018/06/ (post Tinanatelo Vilakati (second form)
  • 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 ix (first form, from Richard Patrick); TINANATELO_BLOGSPOT post Tinanatelo Vilakati (second form)

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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