Abakwa Mthethwa

The Mthethwa people are actually not a bloodline but a nation that came from Tete in Mozambique, (thus the name Mthethwa and is the reason why most Xhosas say they Thetha – it is true for all nations, we call ourselves by the words we use to say talk = khuluma = Makhulu or Khumalo – showing that Zulu-dialect was drawn from the Khumalo clan in KwaNongoma etc.) made up mostly of people of BaSotho origin. Or should I say Sotobe of the Subiya/Sibiya who ruled most of Southern Africa during the younger years of King Shaka. King Shaka was directly descended from the Subiya since his grandmother was Queen Mthaniya, daughter of Manyelela (called Nyewera or Nyerere or Nzhelele or Njelele or Jiyane or Njiyela) of the Sibiya. Sibiya is called Tsibela amongst the Koena or Sibuyi (Thonga-Mozambique), Valambya/Nambya in Moz-Zim-Zambia, also, Subiya (Zambia), Mbuyazi or Sebole/Sebone (amongst Sothos, to name a few. The Free State where some Nigerian and other Ngoni tribes come from were called Kwararafa or Kororofa or Subiya Kingdom prior to establishment of King Shaka’s Kingdom.

The rulers of Sibiya were called Ngobe or Gombe or Nkomo or Khomo (meaning cow) or Ncube or Bhengu form which the BeNguni or Mbinguni (Swahili meaning Heaven) or Zulu. Also called Ngubeni or Ngobeni or Ncubeni or Nkomoni or KaNkomo.

Amongst the Mthethwa nation are Mofokeng and all the Moloisane or Valoi or Gwambe – what we Zulus call Qwabe or Mugabe or Mgabhi or Macambi or Gcwabe or Mncwabe or Majola – all who rule over the nation called Godo or Mkhonto or Ndongo or Ndonga or Tlokwa or Thonga or Tungwa or Ndzau or Ndau or Ndyao or Nyawo or Yao or Mlawu or Malawi or Shabalala or Nxamalala or Ngxabalala and the other part is Ngwane or Khumalo or Mukuyu or Khulu or Khuluma or Nxumalo or Xulu or Xolo or Zulu or Sulu, thus the name Godongwane = Shabalala-Zulu. That is who he was overall ruler of. I am not talking about Zulu as a tribe but as a nation. They are also known as Zwane. Most of their Kings are from the Zwane clan. (P.S. The Chewa are actually Shabalala, same as Mozambican Tongas).

Lastly, you can translate the praise names to simply Malawian surnames e.g . Nyambose = Zgambo/Ziyambo, Geza = Zagwe or MoZAmbiQUE or Mageda or Makheda or Makhedama = Mkhonto or Shabalala or Mhlongo or Songo or Zungu or Mhlungu or Zongo. Mpanza = Mbadza-Kongo, Manguzi or Gubazi or Gussi (from Kenya, along with other Kenyan tribes of eMbu/eMbo, Kamba, Ahikuyu (KaKhumalo/Cebekhulu/Macingwane or Kekane) or Kikuyu, Meru (Mau or Mbau or Mbalo or Phalo – Sibiya clan who bore the Kunene or Right-hand House or Benjamin or Dlamini) and Luhya or Malua or Malangu or Makua or Gwambe or Qwabe who are regarded as the same as Zulu in Zululand. These are the tribes that make up people from Tete Mozambique who make up the whole of South and Southern Africa now. The current Ndiweni clan of Zimbabwe-Khumalo come from the Mthethwa clan. They were called Mdletshe who also Linate themselves with Ngomane – which is also called Hhiya kwabaNane or Himyar or Njomane or Magemane in Zululand. It is also called Zwane as Ndiweni is a so n of Zwane and a brother to Mdolomba = Ndonga = Shabalala = Cebekhulu = Kikuyu or KaKhumalo and Mangwe or Masilo or MaZulu or Mageba or Kamba.

Just tying this up with the rest of the continent. We came from East and West Africa but we are the same people.

I hope this answers your question.

yebo khona kunjalo kuyashoda impela. ODingiswayo abakhulu