Surname · Xitsonga
Maluleke
Also spelled Van'wanati / VaN'wanati, Nwanati, Yen'weneti, Mn'wanati, Mhinga.
A xivongo of the Vatsonga, recorded in Xitsonga, which the sources also call Tsonga.
Xitsonga
- PeopleVatsonga
- Grouping N'walungu group, one half of the Nwanati whose other half are the Makwakwa (Junod); VaN'wanati cluster with Makwakwa, Mondlane and Xivambu (Wikipedia, uncited); Hlengwe group's third subdivision (Junod)
- Surnames recorded Maluleke, Mhinga, Xikundu / Shikundu, Xigalo, Mulamula, Hlaneki, Nkuri, Majeje, Muyexe, Makuleke, Mavambe, Ntsan'wisi
- Places recorded Limpopo-Levubu, Levubu, Vhembe, Malamulele, Limpopo, Mapai, Gaza, Mozambique, Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
Part of Swivongo: Tsonga clan names
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- Henri-Alexandre Junod, The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. I: The Social Life, Imprimerie Attinger Freres, Neuchatel — https://archive.org/details/lifeofsouthafric01junouoft
- Shidjabadjaba John Malungana, Vuphato: Praise Poetry in Xitsonga (D.Litt. et Phil. thesis), 1994 — https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Vuphato---praise-poetry-in/9913242107691
- Shidjabadjaba John Malungana, Vuphato: Praise Poetry in Xitsonga (D.Litt. et Phil. thesis), 1994 — https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Vuphato---praise-poetry-in/9913242107691 (Ntsan'wisi 1986 and informant H.G. Mabasa)
- Wikipedia contributors, Maluleke (Van'wanati Maluleke), read 2026-09-05, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maluleke
- Wikipedia contributors, Tsonga people, read 2026-09-05, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsonga_people
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