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The Motsa clan can be found in eSwatini, South Africa( Motsa, Motha and Mota) , Lesotho, (Mota). In eSwatini the clan names bifurcated into two streams following the ancestry origins of two brothers, one of whom was of a darker hue (Loluhlata). This rendition is not of Loluhlata but of the Motsa of Lushikishini, the Royal Palace of Chief Mhlaba Motsa (my great grandfather).
Motsa Mvulane Khatsidze Dlebankhomo Mdlalose, wena lowadlala indlalakanye engabe kusasa uyowudlalani. Nongombili, Setfuko sibi. Wetfukwe nguNjobeni naLukhambule. Jojo kaSobhuza. Nabo Mangcingcikatana wetikhali. Wena waMabonakala eLudvwendvweni. Wena waLozihhabhu! Motsa!
Bongani Mothar
Hi Zodwa
You wouldn’t happen to know how o Motha got to be in the Zulu and Ndebele clans?
Phethile
To help, according the history I was told by my grandfather who was born in 1918 he said, when their fathers “Motsa” came into south Africa from Swaziland, they needed a place to settle as they were running away from their brothers in Swaziland.
When they reach in South Africa they settled in Phongola, and Zulu people were fighting anyone who was not Zulu. In order to be not chased away too they had to pretend to be Zulus, and then they decided to remove “TSA” and replace it by “that” since in Zulu there’s no word with “ts”.
“I think it was the time of Shaka Zulu exosha amashangane.” He said that couldn’t help much because AmaZulu wabe azana ngezibongo so owayesindile wayesindile but that is how the Motsa’s became Motha and find themselves in all in different province some fleed with everybody as it was war. Some Motsa’s never change they are still Motsa but they believe that they are tswanas, because of not knowing the history. The truth is that Motha are swazis origins from Swaziland.