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Isibongo · isiNdebele (Northern Ndebele)

Sibanda

Also spelled Shumba, Sebata/Tau, Dawuduna/Tautona.

  • PeopleamaNdebele (Matabeleland)
  • Grouping Lion totem
  • Surnames recorded Sibanda
  • Places recorded Matabeleland, Midlands, Gwanda, Botswana, South Africa
  • Branch Matabeleland

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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: totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Sibanda; opening lines)

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About This Record

What Was Written Down

Two separate routes into the name are recorded: Bhebe (via Ndlovu-Gatsheni) has Shumbas becoming Sibandas among incorporated Shona speakers, and the Sunday News Sotho column has Sotho people inside Mzilikazi's state adopting Sibanda as a totem-surname. totems.co.zw's praise pairs Dawuduna with Tautona, i.e. it reads the name against Tswana. 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
  • Mzala Tom, The Sotho people of Zimbabwe (Part 2) (Sunday News; cites Joseph Mujere and Pathisa Nyathi's Babirwa history), 2022-10-16, Zimpapers (Sunday News / heraldonline.co.zw) — https://www.heraldonline.co.zw/the-sotho-people-of-zimbabwe-part-2/
  • Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Who Ruled by the Spear? Rethinking the Form of Governance in the Ndebele State (African Studies Quarterly 10(2-3)), 2008, University of Florida Center for African Studies — https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/168/Ndlovu-Gatsheni-Vol10Issue23.pdf
  • totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/
  • totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Sibanda)
  • totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Sibanda; opening lines)

Recorded Alongside

  • Bhebhe Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Dlamini Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Dlodlo Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Dube Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Gumbo Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Gumede Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).

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