Surname · siSwati

Nkonyane

Also spelled Nkhonyane.

A sinanatelo of the emaSwati, recorded in siSwati, which the sources also call Swati.

siSwati

Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.

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 (narrator Mshange Nkonyane)
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 (narrator Mshange Nkonyane's own statement)
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 (endnote liii (Kuper relating Nkonyane to the Lukhele)
Wikipedia contributors, Bemdzabuko (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemdzabuko

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