Talk:Matatiele

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My name is Thembakazi Sicwebu born and grew within Matatiele. I have a bit of concern about the history of Matatiele documented on this page. Yes Matatiele has Sotho, Xhosa & Phuthi speaking people however the last two are the minority. Matatiele majority population is Amahlubi speaking people. There are very few villages if any where you would find Amaxhosa/Abathembu alone if any, mostly it would be villages that are populated by Amahlubi and the Chief/Traditional Leader of that village would be hlubi (the Radebes/Bhungane clan) then it would have few families that belong to abathembu. This goes for the Phuthi speaking people, in fact I do not know a single Phuthi Chief in Matatiele. Statistics of the Traditional Leaders within the villages can be obtained from the House of Traditional Leaders or the Municipality as evidence of what I say. In a nutshell this history is not fully correct and misleading because now a person who is trying to locate amahlubi would be misled and not getting the correct information. I can assist in gathering the stats that can be documented here in order to give valid facts in this platform. I have served in the structures on Amahlubi at National level and it is evident that Matatiele is in fact populated by amahlubi and sothos. Good day. - My name is Jabulani Radebe. My father (Isaac, Themba, Uzaziyaza, Radebe); left Matatiele as a young boy about 80 years ago. His father Robert moved the whole family to Johannesburg. They were all buried here in Jo'burg together with my Partenal Grandma (Sophie "NaMbongo" Radebe). As a result, I have never had a chance to know the place of my Fore-Fathers and to know if I have any relatives remaining back home. I am a grown man of 35 now but my longing to go back and find myself has not diminished. Infact, the older I get the deeper the longing. I don't know if I can still trace my Homeland but I would appreciate any enlightenment in this regard. All I have as reference to my father is his ID No. Can anybody assist? Thanking you, Radebe Jabulani

Hi Jabulani,

I am also from Matatile, I think your best bet is to visit the town, but find out which village they were from. If you know the village someone in the village will know your family. It might be difficult if you do not know the village. But you can scale it down by finding out where the Radebe's are from, I imagine that would scale it down to a region of about 5-10 villages. Send me an email I will send you information on Matatiele how to get there, where to stay and what to do while are there, it is an extrodinary place. Fedii (talk) 10:21, 7 December 2007 (UTC) Goodluck!

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