PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
Ndzundza Ndebele are an Nguni people who originated in South
Africa
in the areas of present day Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Northern
provinces,
formerly called the Eastern and Northern Transvaal. Ensuing family
battles
caused one group of Ndebele to go farther north into Zimbabwe, thus
creating
the Southern and the Northern Ndebele. Of the groups, the Manala and
the
Ndzundza, stayed in South Africa, it is the latter who are recognized
globally
as the Ndebele of South Africa. The Ndebele were large land holders and
fierce warriors who were able to defend their lands against encroaching
Boer farmers. Rulers were...
- Chief MAFANA, 1st Chief of the united Ndebele, fl.c1630
- Chief MHLANGA (son), 2nd Chief of the united Ndebele.
- Chief MUSI (son), 3rd Chief of the united Ndebele, a great
diplomat, he
lead his people to settle among the Tswana and Pedi, intermarry and
pursue
cultural exchange, after his death his sons each tried to seize
supremacy,
with only the two oldest sons leaving lasting posterity, had issue.
- Chief MANALA, founder of the Manala-Mabhena
tribe, considered to be the Senior of the two lines, fl.c1700.
- Chief NDZUNDZA (qv)
- Skhosana
- Mthombeni [Kekana], founder of the Northern amaNdebele.
- Dhlomu
- Sibasa
- Mhwaduba
- Masombuka
- Chief NDZUNDZA, initially he was the 4th Chief of the
united Ndebele,
but
became founder of the tribe named after him, the amaNdzundza, married
and
had issue.
- Chief MXETSHA [Mrhetjha] (qv)
- Prince Petha
- Prince Ndimande
- Prince Kotheni
- Prince Qongo
- Princess Mthisa, given in marriage to her uncle Chief
Manala.
- Chief MXETSHA, married and had issue.
- Chief MAGOBHOLI (qv)
- Prince Ntobela
- Chief SNIDENI (qv)
- Prince Bhorholo
- Chief MAGOBHOLI, married and had issue.
- Chief BONGWE, married and had issue.
- Chief SNIDENI, initially a Regent.
- Chief MAHLANGU, married and had issue.
- Chief PHASWANA (Right Hand House) (qv)
- Prince Marhotjha (Great House)
- Chief MGWEZANA (Left Hand House) (qv)
- Chief DZELE (Great House) (qv)
- Chief MRHABULI (Great House) (qv)
- Chief MDALANYANA (Great House) (qv)
- Chief MARIDILI (qv)
- Prince Bushela
- Chief PHASWANA
- Chief MARIDILI, married and had issue.
- Prince Zondwako
- Prince Somalila
- Chief MDALANYANA, married and had issue.
- Chief MGWEZANA, married and had issue.
- Chief MAGODONGO [Mphekgu](qv)
- Prince Gembe
- Prince Mrabheli [SoTshoro]
- Prince Bayeleni
- Chief DZELE
- Chief MRHABULI, married and had issue.
- Prince Irhasa
- Prince Khunwana
- Prince Sotjelwani
- Prince Sogada
- Prince Sokhanukani
- Prince Sibatjelwa
- Prince Sogwena
- Prince Langabejani
- Chief MAGODONGO [Mphekgu], married and had issue. He died
c1825.
- Prince Bharhuza
- Prince Mloyi, the designated Heir to his father, married
and had issue.
He died c1825.
- Prince Tjambowe, overlooked in the succession due to a
visual
disability,
married and had issue.
- Prince Ndlambisa, married and had issue.
- Prince Qhutjiwe, married and had issue.
- Prince Josiah, married and had issue.
- Prince Mahlenga [Sokinga/Sohlungulu], married and
had issue.
- Prince Hlanganisa
- Prince Mtshabi
- Prince SIBOKO (qv)
- Prince Mgwenyana
- Chief MABHOKO (qv)
- Prince Ndaweni
- Prince Bengwako
- Chief SOMDEYI (qv)
- Prince Gwalimba
- Chief SOMDEYI, Regent, died 1839.
- Chief MABHOKO 1839/1860, 13th? Chief of the amaNdzundza,
had issue,
died
c1860.
- Chief MKHEPULA (qv)
- Chief GABONGO [Rhobongo/Ngangasi] (qv)
- Chief NYABELA (qv)
- Prince Magelembe
- Prince Matsitsi Jonas, married and had issue.
- Prince Somtjhatjhana, Chief of the Ndebele at
Kafferfontein, married and had issue.
- Chief Poni MAPHEPHA I, married and had issue.
- Chief Jack MPHEZULU, married and had issue.
- Chief MKHEPULA [Mkhepula Soqaleni Sonyengele Cornelius
Mahlangu]
1860/1865
or 1865/1873, born c1820/1825, had issue. He died c1865 at Nomtshagelo,
near Roossenekal, Transvaal.
- Chief MFENE [MABUSABESALA I] (qv)
- Prince Sokhabo, married and had issue.
- Prince Mphalali, married and had issue.
- Prince Mthunjwa, Chief of the Ndebele at
Steenskoolspruit.
GABONGO [Rhobongo/Ngangasi] 1860/1863
(Regent) or
(1873/1879) - Chief NYABELA 1879/1902, born 1825/1830 at
Nomtshagelo, in
autumn 1883,
intense war occurred between the Boers and the Ndzundza under Chief
Nyabela,
who valiantly fought for five years and finally held out in the famous
Caverns of Mapoch for over eight months before starvation and lack of
fresh
water brought them out of their enclave. Chief Nyabela was sentenced to
life in prison (though released in 1899), his kraal was dynamited, and
all Ndebele land holdings confiscated and parceled out to Boer farmers,
and the Ndzundza people were indentured as servant labor for the
farmlands,
supposedly for a period of five years. He married and had issue. He
died
19th December 1902 at Wamlalaganye, Hartebeestfontein near Pretoria.(#1)
- Chief MFENE [MABUSABESALA I] 1902/1921, married and had
issue. He died 1921.
- Ingwenyama MAYITJHA II [Cornelius Mahlangu] (qv)
- Nomatombeni Dina Mahlangu (ex Sibiya), married Kgalabi
Msiza and had
issue.
- Hlangane Speelman Msiza [Cornelius
Speelman]
- Ingwenyama MAYITJHA II [Cornelius Mahlangu]
1921/1961, married
and
had issue. He died 1961.
- HM Ingwenyama MABUSABESALA II [David Mabusa Mabhoko
Mahlangu] (qv)
- Francina Mahlangu, born 13th December 1940,
internationally renowned
artist,
married Daniel Ndimande and has issue.
- HM Ingwenyama MABUSABESALA II [David Mabusa Mabhoko
Mahlangu]
1961/1992,
married (amongst others), Queen Johanna Selepi and had issue, 2 sons
and
1 daughter. He died 6th July 1992.
- HM Ingwenyama MAYITJHA III [Cornelius Mahlangu] (by Queen
Johanna)(qv)
- Prince James Senzangakhona Mahlangu (by Queen Johanna),
born 3rd
February
1953 at Weltevrede, Groblersdal, Chief of the Ndzundza-Mabusa Tribal
Authority
at Waterval, named by King Mayitjha on 17th March 2001, Chief Minister,
KwaNdebele Founder Member, Intando Yesizwe Party, educated at Mapoch
Primary
School, Weltevrede, in 1960; then at Ndebele Primary School at Waterval
where he completed Standard 6 in 1970 before going on to Mayisha High
in
the same area. Here he completed his JC in 1972 and matriculated at
Bhekuzulu
High School in 1974. In 1975 he went to study Administration at the
University
of Zululand. In 1976, because of the national uprisings following the
Soweto
shootings, his studies were disrupted. He resumed his classes in 1978
at
the University of the North, where he completed a BA Administration. He
was a founder member of Contralesa in 1986, formed the Intando Yesizwe
Party, originally founded as a semi-clandestine organisation in 1984,
but
was officially launched in 1990, a member of the Victory Fellowship
World
Outreach Centre, he enjoys football, "excessively", and choral music,
married
Georgina Busi and had issue, 2 children. He died August 2005 in
Pretoria.
- Princess Adelaide Mahlangu (by Queen Johanna)
- HM Ingwenyama MAYITJHA III [Cornelius Mahlangu]
1992/2005, born
2nd June 1947, married five wives, including (a) in 1975, HM Queen
Siphila
[HRH Princess Siphila Dlamini of Swaziland],
and had issue, about 20 children. He died 30th June 2005.
- HRH Prince Mbusi Mahlangu, Heir Apparent, succeeded as HM
Ingwenyama MBUSI (qv).
- HRH Prince Sive Mahlangu
- HRH Princess Sakhe Mahlangu, has issue, one son.
- HRH Princess Lomcebo Mahlangu, has issue, one son.
- HRH Princess Simangaliso Mahlangu, has issue, one son.
- Child (one of the above?), born 27th May 1986.
- HM Ingwenyama MBUSI [Mbusi Mahlangu] (qv)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Prince Maphepha Mahlangu, married and had issue.
- Prince Klaas Makhosana Mahlangu [Makosana Klaus
Mahlangu], married 17th
May 2002 in Nhlazatshe, Vryheid, Princess Nonhlanhla Zulu, eldest
daughter
of King CYPRIAN BHEKUZULU of kwaZulu.
- Prince Colin Mahlangu
- Prince Andries Mahlangu
- Prince Majozi George Mahlangu, born 1951.
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