The name Matutu found most prevalent in the Southern Africa region mainly Zimbabwe, was as a result of their involvement in the escape of Mzilikazi from the Zulu nation ruled by Tshaka.
The Matutu’s we’re the right hand man of Tshaka being the brains behind his decision making. Their malice in planning an unprecedented fall out of a clan in the so called strong nation which was getting heavy on Tshaka found them being hunted and killed to reduced numbers.
This caused most of them to change names with the fear of Tshaka ever finding out. Most of them joined Mzilikazi in his travels north to Zimbabwe. Basically these people are to be called the builders of the now called South Africa and the freshly populated Zimbabwe.
Though in their arrival in Zimbabwe they couldn’t participate greatly in ruling, for they were promised power which wasn’t their specialty.
They only seeked to be advisors but with the birth of Lobengula who did not respect the name that had them escape from great terror, he tried to dissolve the name but by them scattering it resulted in them densely populating Zimbabwe and some continued to return North which was the region where Chief Matutu came from.
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