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Nyaka
Also spelled Inyak / Inhaca.
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- Grouping Southern Ronga (Mathebula 2020); Wikipedia says the Nyakas identify with the Tembe
- Surnames recorded Nyaka
- Places recorded Maputo, Inyaka Island, Mozambique
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What Was Written Down
Junod records from Perestrello's 1554 report a king Nyaka whose land the Zembe river separated from Tembe's, and says his dynasty seems then to have ruled a larger area before being confined to the island that bears his name, perhaps by Maputju's campaigns. Mathebula and Mokgoatsana describe a Nyaka kingdom along the coast from northern KwaZulu-Natal to Maputo, in existence by the end of the fourteenth century, as the homeland from which the Hlengwe migrated north. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.
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- Mandla D. Mathebula and Sekgothe Mokgoatsana, The 'polyonymous identity' of the Hlengwe people of Zimbabwe and their struggle for a 'collective proper name', 2020, HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 76(4), a6192 — https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/6192/16812
- Wikipedia contributors, Tsonga people, read 2026-09-05, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsonga_people
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