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Sinanatelo · siSwati

Gwebu

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping Emakhandzambili
  • Surnames recorded Gwebu
  • Places recorded Originally, Nkomati, Lukhele, Shiselweni

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What Was Written Down

Kuper, as reported, marks the Gwebu as found ahead and as not intermarrying with the Shabangu, to whom they are related; Matsebula gives them a Pedi (beSutfu) origin. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.

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Where This Comes From

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  • 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 (and SWOHP_NHLABATSI endnote xxxviii (reporting KUPER1947 p.233 and MATSEBULA1988 p.21)
  • Wikipedia contributors, Emakhandzambili (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emakhandzambili

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.
  • Gama Also recorded among the emaSwati.

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