Surname · siSwati
Tfwala
Also spelled Thwala, Malindzisa.
A sinanatelo of the emaSwati, recorded in siSwati, which the sources also call Swati.
siSwati
- PeopleemaSwati
- Grouping Bemdzabuko
- Surnames recorded Tfwala, Thwala, Malindzisa
- Places recorded Maliyaduma, Nyakeni, Eswatini
Part of Tinanatelo: Swati clan praises
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- 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
- 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.6)
- Jozi Joseph Thwala (University of Mpumalanga), An Examination of Clan Names and Clan Praises as Anthroponymic Domains in Swati Culture, Current Journal of Applied S…, 2021 — https://journalcjast.com/index.php/CJAST/article/view/3438 (Malindzisa-Tfwala pairing)
- Jozi Joseph Thwala (University of Mpumalanga), An Examination of Clan Names and Clan Praises as Anthroponymic Domains in Swati Culture, Current Journal of Applied S…, 2021 — https://journalcjast.com/index.php/CJAST/article/view/3438 (abstract (Malindzisa-Tfwala pairing)
- Anonymous blog administrator, Tinanatelo (community blog, 116 posts of June 2018), 2018, Blogger — http://tinanatelo.blogspot.com/2018/06/ (post Tinanatelo MALINDZISA(TFWALA) for the second and third names)
- Wikipedia contributors, Bemdzabuko (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemdzabuko
- Wikipedia contributors, Swazi people (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swazi_people
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