Surname · isiZulu · isiNdebele (Northern Ndebele) · siSwati
Nxumalo
Also spelled Ndwandwe, Nxumayo.
Carried by the amaZulu, amaNdebele (Matabeleland) and emaSwati.
isiZulu
An isithakazelo of the amaZulu.
- PeopleamaZulu
Recorded Praise Names
These are praise names, not a full recitation.
NdwandweMlabaMkhatshwa — junior royal house connected to Ndwandwe isiNdebele (Northern Ndebele)
An isibongo of the amaNdebele (Matabeleland), which the sources also call Northern Ndebele.
- PeopleamaNdebele (Matabeleland)
- Grouping Ndwandwe-descended Nguni line; a modern chieftaincy
- Surnames recorded Nxumalo
- Places recorded Nkayi, Chief Sikhobokhobo, Shangani
- Branch Matabeleland
siSwati
A sinanatelo of the emaSwati, which the sources also call Swati.
- PeopleemaSwati
- Grouping Emafikamuva
- Surnames recorded Nxumalo
- Places recorded Mhlosheni, Zikhotheni, Eswatini
Part of Tinanatelo: Swati clan praises
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- IZITHAKAZELO ZAMAZULU directory, community-compiled (see sources)
- Community compilation: iafrika.org
- Community compilation: zuluring.blogspot.com
- Community compilation: izithakazelo.blog
- Community compilation: izithakazeloizibongo.blogspot.com
- Community compilation: izithakazelo.wordpress.com
- Pathisa Nyathi, Names and naming: Mabhena history captured in names (Sunday News column), 2020-02-23, Zimpapers (Sunday News / heraldonline.co.zw) — https://www.heraldonline.co.zw/names-and-naming-mabhena-history-captured-in-names/
- 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/ (Nxumalo)
- Philip Bonner, Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State, 1983, Cambridge University Press / Ravan Press (p.10 Ndwandwe cadet lineage)
- Swaziland Oral History Project, Hamilton series (A8): interview with Velamuva Hlatshwako, 1987, with synopsis and end…, 1987; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK2/(A8)HLAT.pdf
- Swaziland Oral History Project, Hamilton series (A8): interview with Velamuva Hlatshwako, 1987, with synopsis and end…, 1987; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK2/(A8)HLAT.pdf (endnote xlii (reporting KUPER1947 p.233 labafik'emuva)
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