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Mabonsa ka Sidhlayi, recorded conversation with James Stuart, notebook 29

Mabonsa ka Sidhlayi, recorded conversation with James Stuart, notebook 29

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Mabonsa ka Sidhlayi, recorded conversation with James Stuart, notebook 29

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[Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2019: James Stuart's recorded notes of his conversation with Mabonsa ka Sidhlayi. Published in an edited volume by Colin de B. Webb and John Wright.]

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Mabonsa ka Sidhlayi, recorded conversation with James Stuart, notebook 29

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Event Actor Event Type Event Date Event Description
Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) Online curation 2016 -
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press and Killie Campbell Africana Library (KCAL) Publication 1979
John Wright Editing 1976/03 - 1979/10
Colin de B. Webb Editing 1976/03 - 1979/10
James Stuart Interview-recording 1909/01/27 - 1909/02/02
Mabonsa ka Sidhlayi Interlocution 1909/01/27 - 1909/02/02
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Mabonsa ka Sidhlayi, recorded conversation with James Stuart, notebook 29

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Name: Steven Kotze
Date: 2025-12-01T09:15:51+0000
Page 2 of the manuscript version of Mabhonsa kaSidlayi's account contains a description of the place located on the Lubombo mountains where the Hlubi are reputed to have originated from. In the published version it is described in English in the following way: "at the large flat rock on the summit," but the manuscript uses the isiZulu phrase "phezu kwalo emadwaleni." A small hill north of the iNgwavuma river, a few kilometres north-east of the modern town of Ingwavuma is named "Ludwaleni," which could be a reference to this site. The name is, however, applied to any place where flat rocks occur, and is fairly common in KZN.
Name: Steven Kotze
Date: 2025-12-01T09:15:51+0000
Page 2 of the manuscript version of Mabhonsa kaSidlayi's account contains a description of the place located on the Lubombo mountains where the Hlubi are reputed to have originated from. In the published version it is described in English in the following way: "at the large flat rock on the summit," but the manuscript uses the isiZulu phrase "phezu kwalo emadwaleni." A small hill north of the iNgwavuma river, a few kilometres north-east of the modern town of Ingwavuma is named "Ludwaleni," which could be a reference to this site. The name is, however, applied to any place where flat rocks occur, and is fairly common in KZN.

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