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Vahlengwe :
Va ka Cawuke i Vahlengwe, Hlengwe swi vula rifumu; Vahlengwe i yin’wani ya tinyimba letikulu eka rixaka ra Vatsonga. Vito ra vona ri huma hi leswo van’wana va nge, Vahlengwe a va nga tivi ndzilo, a va dya nyama yimbisi. Kutani Cawuke (Mantsena) a oka eka vo kokwa yena va ka Sono (van’wana va ri u lo yiva kunene) ndzilo hi xinyorhi xa mhumba a baleka, hi laha va nge, “Cawuke ca humba” (Cawuke swi vula xioki xa ndzilo).
Kambe van’wana va rungula swin’wana, va ku a hi ndzilo lowu va ka Cawuke va nga yivela va ka Sono, va vula ku i vuhosi. Hikuva Zinjhiva hosi ya ka Sono a a vabya, kutani a humesa ndzalama ya vukosi (van’wana va ri a a ri Maledza). Kutani a ku eka n’wana wa yena wa xisati la tekiwake hi va ka Cawuke: “Dyisa n’wana wa wena ndzalama ya vuhosi, a ta fuma tiko ra hina ra ka Sono”. Ivi N’waZinjivha a teka a dzalama a yi chela eka xinyorhi xa humba, a yi fihla. Loko Zinjhiva a fa, va ka Sono va lava ndzalama va nga yi kumi. Va vitana n’wana wa vona lowa xisati, va vutisa ku ndzalama yi ye kwi, a ku; “A ndzi yi tivi, ndzi nga wansati, yi tiva hi n’wina.”
Royalty from Hlengwe last name
Ancient kingdom located along the northern coast of present-day KwaZulu-Natal up to the present-day Mozambican capital city of Maputo. The Nyaka kingdom is believed to have been in existence by around the end of the 14th century. The Hlengwe people trace their origins to this kingdom, with “Hlengwe” meaning wealth. The kingdom served as the ancestral foundation for the Hlengwe people who would later spread across four SADC countries: Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland.
The ruling class of the Hlengwe society, with nzilo (fire) as their totem and humba (snail). This clan is still in leadership today. They were Tsonga-speaking and formed the aristocratic foundation of Hlengwe social structure, followed by the Hlungwana or Sono of the Tihlanga (reeds) totem.
Leader of the Matsena Hlengwe who led his people from Mozambique to infiltrate along the Nuanetsi and Chengane/Chefu rivers, forcefully occupying areas between 1750-1850s. Other Hlengwe chiefs separated from Xigombe and settled in the Chiredzi, Sangwe, and Ndanga areas. These were Sengwe, Tshovani, and Chitsa.
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