For example, the Tswana. He and his warriors took women, children and men. These were assimilated to that Zulu clan. The captured women got married to his warriors as they were few women among Mzilikazi’s clan. Those marriages resulted in the birth of many children and his clan grew bigger. When, he and his clan arrived in Mthwakazi (what is now know as Matabeleland), they built permanent houses there. History has it that, the Shona people who had already moved into Zimbabwe, stole the cattle of Mzilikazi’s clan.
As a way of recovering their livestock, they raided the Shona tribe, took cattle, women and children. Again,those people were assimilated to his clan. There were marriages that took place and children were born. The population of Mthwakazi multiplied. I guess this explains that there is no pure Nguni or Ndebele in Zimbabwe. We ought to love each other as Zimbabweans.
I don’t understand why it’s said there’s no pure Ngunis based on the fact that other tribes were conquered and made part of the clan. Marrying a woman from another tribe does not destroy any purity of where the man is from. He remains a pure Ndebele simply married to a Shona or Tswana woman. And not all Ndebele men married from other tribes, some married Ndebele women if purity is based on marrying a woman of your tribe. Maybe to identify pure Ndebeles is hard (and by pure I mean those born to a Ndebele father and Ndebele mother) but they are there. Again the fact that men married from other tribes doesn’t destroy the purity of the Ndebele person. A Tswana woman can have a baby with a Ndebele man and that child is a Ndebele child pure Ndebele if i may add. The fact the mother is of another tribe does not take away the purity of the child.
Thanks Buhle👊 you nailed it this guy is writing something that doesn’t exist ,Mkhwananzi,Ndiweni,Khumalo,Dlodlo ,Nxumalo e.t.c are Nguni’s and they’re still there in Zimbabwe
You are ignorant, it’s embarrassing. How is a child born of a Tswana woman and Ndebele man pure Ndebele? Does the mother’s DNA sieze to exist within the child? Does it disappear? The only way that child could be pure Ndebele is if the mother was also Ndebele.
What DNA are you talking about? Is there any such thing as Ndebele or Shona DNA? The word Ndebele is not even original to KZN. The problem with Zim Politics is that we ave to grapple with strange Shona narratives of what constitutes minority tribes. Even in KZN , there is no such thing as ZILU dna due to the multiple wars that were fought in excatly the same format as the Ndebele conquests. Having Ndebele names does not equate to Ndebele dna as there is no such thing. Perhaps one could refer to Bantu DNA as this is more identifiable with one group of people spread across Southern and East Africa.
This guy is confused. Actually stupid. Really.
uyanya lona .ngikhona mina am a pure zuluboy phansi entabeni zesandlana la engdabuka khona kusho mina umfokaMageba
I am a pure breed , believe what you want, some bloodlines till today dont mix with certain other tribes/ surnames.
The writer of this article is confused, I was born in Bulawayo Zimbabwe but I was always told my origins as my mothers family who’s maiden surname is Ncube came from the Bulawayo region on my father’s side they from Durban in South Africa.
My grand great grandfather from my father’s side was a pastor and they came from Durban, I bear the family surname Ngwenya, from my mothers side I have been told my great-great grandfather came from Jo’burg.
To claim there is no pure Ndebele is rather disingenuous and naive as that is purely a subjective view.
Now the other part of his claim relating to being Nguni is just ridiculous as all the tribes he mentioned as being conquered by the Ndebeles are NGUNI TRIBES.
Love or hate it Nguni nation is there to stay