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Sinanatelo · siSwati

Gama

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Emakhandzambili
  • Surnames recorded Gama
  • Places recorded Mbabane, Mdzimba

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

About This Record

What Was Written Down

Found by Sobhuza I in the Mdzimba mountains together with the Magagula and Mncina. The Gama are custodians of the royal burial ground at Dlangeni in the Mdzimba. John Gama, a Swazi raised in Natal, served as an unofficial adviser at Mbandzeni's court and was one of James Stuart's informants. The community blog's Vilakati praise also invokes Gama, suggesting a link not confirmed by scholarship read. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.

Where This Comes From

Written down by
  • Philip Bonner, Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State, 1983, Cambridge University Press / Ravan Press (p.30 as reported (beSutfu group)
  • Swaziland Oral History Project: consolidated editorial endnotes and glossary, letters A to K — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK5/ENDNOTES.pdf
  • Swaziland Oral History Project: consolidated editorial endnotes and glossary, letters A to K — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK5/ENDNOTES.pdf (reporting KUPER1947 p.233 and MATSEBULA1988 p.23)
  • 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)

Recorded Alongside

  • Bhembe Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Dladla Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Dlamini Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Dvuba Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Fakudze Also recorded among the emaSwati.
  • Gamedze Also recorded among the emaSwati.

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