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Sinanatelo · siSwati

Mngometulu

Also spelled Mngomezulu, Mngometfulu.

  • PeopleemaSwati
  • Grouping disputed: Emafikamuva (Kuper; Thwala 2013 list) | Emakhandzambili (Bonner's attacked-chiefdoms list as cited by Thwala 2013)
  • Surnames recorded Mngometulu, Mngomezulu
  • Places recorded Lubuli, Eswatini, Lubombo, Ngwavuma, KwaZulu-Natal

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What Was Written Down

Kuper's table, as reported, classes them as late-comers. Their nineteenth-century chiefs recorded from Bryant are Dlakadla, Zondiswe, Lubelo (killed about 1860 by Mswati II's iNyatsi regiment after a war with the Nyawo) and Mbikiza (died 1918), succeeded by Zombizwe. Thwala 2013 places the name in both his Emafikamuva list and Bonner's list of pre-existing chiefdoms attacked, so both readings are recorded. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.

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Where This Comes From

Written down by
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Royal series (A1): interview with Phuhlaphi Nsibandze, 1968, recorded for King Sobhuz…, 1968; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A1)PHU.pdf
  • Swaziland Oral History Project, Royal series (A1): interview with Phuhlaphi Nsibandze, 1968, recorded for King Sobhuz…, 1968; printed 2021 — https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/collection/WITS/FLOPPYS/DISK1/(A1)PHU.pdf (endnote xiii (KUPER1947 p.233 labafik'emuva)
  • 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 (Emafikamuva) and p.18 (among Emakhandzambili attacked)
  • Wikipedia contributors, Emafikamuva (English Wikipedia), read 2026-09-05, Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emafikamuva

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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