Surname · isiZulu · siSwati
Maseko
Also spelled Ngcamane.
Carried by the amaZulu and emaSwati.
isiZulu
An isithakazelo of the amaZulu.
- PeopleamaZulu
The Izithakazelo
Ngcamane,S'dwaba siluthuli,Mdandulukwane,Khubonye kaNdlovu,Ndlovu ezidl' ekhaya ngokweswela abelusi,Nina bakaKhabangobe kaMaphanga! Maseko,Ngcamane waMafu,Ngcamane wakaLuhleko,Khubonye waNdlovu,Ndlovu tidla ekhaya,Esigangeni tiswela umelusi,Mnguni waseBuhleni,Mdzandzabukane,NaboDvwaba silutfuli singabantolo siphuma ekhabonina,Mthungwa welukhetfo lwakhabangobe waMaphanga,KaMaseko akuvalwa ngemivalo,Kuvalwa ngemakhandza emadvodza. 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.
siSwati
A sinanatelo of the emaSwati, which the sources also call Swati.
- PeopleemaSwati
- Grouping Emakhandzambili
- Surnames recorded Maseko
- Places recorded Eswatini, Nqabaneni, Ncabaneni, Kazondwako, Hhohho
Part of Tinanatelo: Swati clan praises
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- Supplied by Themba, 2026-08-10
- Community compilation: iafrika.org
- Community compilation: zuluring.blogspot.com
- Community compilation: izithakazelo.blog
- Community compilation: izithakazeloizibongo.blogspot.com
- Community compilation: izithakazelo.wordpress.com
- 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
- 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 (endnote xli and SWOHP_NDLELA1983 endnote lv (reporting KUPER1947 p.233)
- 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, Emakhandzambili (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emakhandzambili
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