Surname · isiXhosa · isiZulu · isiNdebele (Northern Ndebele) · siSwati
Dlamini
Also spelled Dhlamini, Nkhosi Dlamini, bakaNgwane, Malangeni.
Carried by the amaXhosa, amaZulu, amaNdebele (Matabeleland) and emaSwati.
isiXhosa
An isiduko of the amaXhosa.
- PeopleamaXhosa
Recorded Praise Names
These are praise names, not a full recitation.
SibakhuluSenzeniGqibhetoLuku SibakhuluSenzeniDebesiNdosile Two versions are recorded and neither has been chosen. Where community sources differ on a praise, both readings are kept. A regional form and a transcription slip are indistinguishable to anyone who is not a first-language reader.
Part of Iziduko: Xhosa clan names
isiZulu
An isithakazelo of the amaZulu.
- PeopleamaZulu
The Izithakazelo
Lusibalukhulu,Malandela ngokulandela izinkomo zamadoda,Jama kaSjadu,Nkomo zidla ekhaya ngoba zeswele abelusi,Mdlovu,Magaduzela,Magwenyane,Nkosi,Mzizi,Mdineka,Nyanya,Msuduka,Inkonekaz' evele ngobusw' emgedeni,USamkethe, esinembay' emaLangeni! isiNdebele (Northern Ndebele)
An isibongo of the amaNdebele (Matabeleland), which the sources also call Northern Ndebele.
- PeopleamaNdebele (Matabeleland)
- Grouping Nguni/Swazi-origin line recorded by the Zimbabwean directory
- Surnames recorded Dlamini
- Places recorded Matabeleland
- Branch Matabeleland
siSwati
A sinanatelo of the emaSwati, which the sources also call Swati.
- PeopleemaSwati
- Grouping Bemdzabuko
- Surnames recorded Dlamini
- Places recorded Whole, Zombodze, Shiselweni, Lobamba, Ludzidzini, Mdzimba
Part of Tinanatelo: Swati clan praises
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- izithakazelo.blog/iziduko-zamaxhosa/ (read 2026-08-23)
- nivile.co.za/iziduko.html (read 2026-08-23) — independent cross-check
- Themba, 2026-08-11: IZITHAKAZELO ZAMAZULU, Full Text Corpus, Tranche One
- Community compilation: iafrika.org
- Community compilation: zuluring.blogspot.com
- Community compilation: izithakazelo.blog
- Community compilation: izithakazeloizibongo.blogspot.com
- Community compilation: izithakazelo.wordpress.com
- 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/ (Dlamini)
- Swaziland Oral History Project: consolidated editorial endnotes and glossary, letters A to K — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK5/ENDNOTES.pdf
- Swaziland Oral History Project, Hamilton series (A22): interview with Simbimba Ndlela, 27 July 1983, with endnotes, 1983; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A22)SIM.pdf (Ndlela praise chain ending in the Lubombo line)
- Swaziland Oral History Project, Bonner series (B8): interview with Nyandza Nhlabatsi and Tomoyi Dlamini, kaZameya, 21… — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK3/(B8)NHLA.pdf (footnote on wena wekunene)
- Swaziland Oral History Project, Royal series (A1): interview with Phuhlaphi Nsibandze, 1968, recorded for King Sobhuz…, 1968; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A1)PHU.pdf (endnotes xxxvii)
- 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)
- Wikipedia contributors, Bemdzabuko (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemdzabuko (citing MATSEBULA1988 p.21)
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