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| Tsonga people; Chopi people; Embo-Dlamini, Nguni people |
The Tembe-Thonga people (also known as Vatsonga or Mathonga) are a Southern African Bantu ethnic group primarily inhabiting northern KwaZulu Natal in South Africa and southern Mozambique.[1] They are part of the broader Tsonga-Nguni cultural and linguistic family that inhabited the Southern African region of Maputaland-Lubombo since the Bantu expansion era.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Webster, David (1986). "Tembe-Thonga Kinship: The Marriage of Anthropology and History". Cahiers d'Études africaines (104): 611–632. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ Tsonga – African tribe, Mozambique.co.za, accessed 24 November 2025
- ↑ Beyer, Greg South African Languages and Their Histories (Nguni-Tsonga Group), TheCollector, 2 October 2022. Accessed 24 November 2025
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