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Mentioning the clan name of someone is the highest form of respect, and it is considered polite to enquire after someone's clan name on meeting. The clan name is also sometimes used as an exclamation by members of that clan. [4] When a woman marries, she may take her husband's surname, but she always keeps her own clan name and adds the prefix ...
The Dlamini clan can be traced back to a man known as Dlamini I, who was also called Matalatala. He is said to have migrated with the other Bantu people from the Great Lakes Region of East Africa during the Bantu expansion. Matalatala is the source of all known Dlamini clan names. [2]
Dlamini III's successor was Ngwane III, who is considered the first King of modern Eswatini. He ruled from around 1745 until 1780 at the Shiselweni region of Eswatini. In 1815, Sobhuza I became the king of Eswatini and was responsible for the establishment of Swati power in central Eswatini. Here the Swati people continued the process of ...
[citation needed] Today, the kingdom encompasses many different clans that speak a Nguni language called Swati and are loyal to the king of Eswatini, who is also the head of the Dlamini clan. [citation needed] "Dlamini" is a very common clan name among all documented Nguni languages (including Swati and Phuthi), [citation needed] associated ...
The House of Dlamini is the royal house of the Kingdom of Eswatini. Mswati III , as king and Ngwenyama of Eswatini, is the current head of the house of Dlamini. Swazi kings up to the present day are referred to as Ingwenyama and they rule together with the Queen Mother who is called Indlovukati . [ 2 ]
Misuzulu Sinqobile kaZwelithini [2] (born 23 September 1974) is the reigning King of the Zulu Nation and Monarch of KwaZulu-Natal.Misuzulu is the second-oldest surviving son of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, and Great Wife, Queen Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu.
Izibongo is a genre of oral literature among various Bantu peoples of Southern Africa, including the Zulu [1] and the Xhosa. [2] While it is often considered to be poetry of praise, Jeff Opland and others consider the term "praise" (for "bonga") to be too limiting, since it can contain criticism also.
Shaka, son of Senzangakhona. Senzangakhona married at least sixteen women by which he had fourteen known sons. His daughters were not recorded. Nandi kaBhebhe eLangeni (Nandi, daughter of Bhebhe, from eLangeni district), bore him his first son Shaka, said to have been conceived during an act of ukuhlobonga, a form of coitus interruptus without penetration allowed to unmarried couples at a time ...