User:Xolani Jamela Sibanda

One thing about Shona people that make Zimbabwe to fall. Propaganda lies and try by all means to change the history to favor them. As from today I want them to know as Young Generation we know our History we don't need them to tell us our History. Abasitshele eyabo. Sibanda is not a Shona is a Ndebele. Ngale kokuba liNdebele singakabi ngama Hlabezulu imbali yethu isema Sothwini. Not aMashona.

Interesting, this is a very incisive narrative of the Sibanda people. I must add that Sibanda people are from the Batau kingdom. In 1813 ,the Batau,Bapedi and Bakoni were under the rule of the Great Sotho King Sekhukhune until 1883 when the whites tried to separate them so as to implement the Bapedi Bantu Act. It was about more or less the time that King Mzilikazi made his way to present day Matebeleland. Zwangendaba had passed through that area too afew years earlier and sought refuge from Shaka enroute to present day Masvingo where he defeated and conquered mambo a spirit medium of the VaVhenda people and some of his people settled there and along the way to Malawi. With ongoing fights with whites a number of Sothos left especially after the death of the King and a rather weak Regent, Maroachene took over and was eventually banished to the Transvaal leaving the whites in charge and the Sotho with no leader. The name Matebele is a Sotho word meaning people of the shield in reference to Zwangendaba's people who were carried their shields in the air as the approached unknown kingdoms as they escaped Shaka's wrath
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By Xolani Dlamanzi Jamela