User:Mthoko.Mpofana

AmaMpofana were said to be an AmaZizi tribes, were one of the tribes attacked by Matiwane & scattered all over present-day KwaZulu-Natal. The remnant of the amaZizi royal house can still be found in it's original place by Bergville.

The Mpofana were among the first Nguni tribes to be fishermen or eat fish. The Mpofana made very complex structures to catch fish along the place today called the Bluff in Durban, these structures which caught many fish are still very advanced today considering people still use fishing rods for subsistence fishing.

The Mpofana can lay claim to the Mpofana Local Municipality in the middle of KZN & the area south of Durban / eThek'wini between the Bluff & uM'lazi River.

The eland was a sacred animal to the San (not Khoi) that lived to the west of the Drakensberg Mountains but it is not clear whether the Mpofana derived their name from this as Mpofana means "of the eland" or "like that of the eland".

Through oral history, Mpofanas are said to be from the Zulu & Ntombela tribes yet the amaZizi are from the greater Dlamini tribe.