PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Rulers
were...
- Inkosi Enkhulu MADIBA (son)
- Inkosi Enkhulu THATO (son)
- Inkosi Enkhulu ZONDWA (son) -/1756
- Inkosi Enkhulu NDABA (son) 1756/1800
- Inkosi Enkhulu NGUBENCUKA VUSANI (son) 1800/1830, born
about 1790 in
Thembuland,
married (amongst others) as his Great Wife Nonesi, born about 1815,
daughter
of King Faku of the Pondo, died 1880 in
Palmerton
and had issue. He died 10th August 1830 near Clarkeburg in Thembuland (#1).
- Inkosi Enkhulu MTHIKRAKRA, eldest son of the Right Hand
Hut (qv)
- Inkosi JOYI (ex Nonesi?)(qv)
- Inkosi SIMAKADE, eldest son of the Left Hand Hut, had
issue.
- Inkosi MBAMBONDUNA
- Inkosi MANDELA (ex Left Hand Hut), Chief of Mvezo, had
issue.
- Chief Henry Gadla Mphakanyiswa Mandela, Chief of Mvezo,
married 4 times
including (a) Nonqaphi Fanny Nosekeni, daughter of Nkedama of the
Mpemvu
Xhosa clan, died September 1968, married 4thly, Nodayimani and had
issue, 4 sons
and 9 daughters. He died 1930.
 Nelson
Rohlihlahla Mandela, born 18th July 1918 at
Mvezo on the Mbashe
River, educated at Clarkebury, then Healdtown in 1937, then Fort Hare
till
1939, circumcised in 1934 receiving the name Dalibhunga, "Maker of
Parliament",
completed his BA degree at the end of 1942 and graduated at Fort Hare
in
1943, enrolled for a law degree at the University of the Witwatersrand,
and in 1952 he opened his own law office in partnership with Oliver
Tambo,
President of South Africa 1994/1999, married 1stly, 1944 (div. 1957),
Evelyn Ntoko Mase, born 1922, died 30th April 2004, married 2ndly,
14th
June 1958 (div. 1992), Winifred Nomzano Zanyiwe Madikizela, born 26th
September
1934 at Bizana, married 3rdly, 18th July 1998, Graça Simbine
(widow of Samora
Machel of Mozambique),
born 1945, President of the
Foundation for Community Development in Mozambique and, since 1999, the
fifth Chancellor of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, served
as the Minister of Education for the Government of Mozambique
1983/1989; and has issue.
- Thembekile Madiba Mandela, born 1945, had issue. He
died July 1969.
- Ndileka Mandela
- Nandi Mandela
- Makaziwe Mandela, died 1948 aged 9 months.
- Makgatho Lewanika Mandela, born 26th June 1950,
married 1stly (div.)
Ann
Moseshla, married 2ndly, Zondi, born 1957, died 13th July 2003 at
Soweto,
and had issue. He died 6th January 2005.
- Mandla Mandela (by 1st marriage), born 1974.
- Ndaba Mandela (by 2nd marriage), born 1983.
- Mbuso Mandela (by 2nd marriage), born 1991.
- Andile Mandela (by 2nd marriage), born 1993.
- Dr. Pumla Makaziwe Mandela, born 1954, married and
has issue.
- Tukwini
- Dumani, born 24th
November 1976.
- Kweku
- Zenani Mandela, born 5th February 1959, married
1973, HRH Prince
Thumbumuzi
Dlamini of Swaziland, and has issue.
- Zindziswa Mandela, born 1960, married 1stly,
Johannes Seakamela,
married
2ndly, and has issue.
- Zaleka Seakamela, born
1980.
- Zondwa Seakamela
- Gadaffi Hlongwane, born
1985.
- Mabel Notancu Ntimakhwe
- Constance Mbekeni Mandela
- Daligqili Mandela, died 1930's
- Mhlalwa Mandela
- Baliwe Mandela
- Makhutswana Mandela
- Nomabandla Mandela
- Leabie Philiso Mandela, born 1930, died 3rd February
1997.
- Nohuthe (f), married Inkosi Enkhulu Sarili of the amaGcaleka,
and had issue. She died before 1857.
- Inkosi FADANA 1830/1845 (Regent), son of
Paramount
Chief Ndaba.
- Inkosi Enkhulu MTHIKRAKRA 1845/1849, born 1819 in Transkei,
married (amongst
others) Notasi, daughter of Inkosi Enkhulu MYEKI
of the amaMpondomise, and had issue. He died 1849 in Quluqa, Engcobo
District (#2).
- Inkosi Enkhulu NGANGELIZWE QEYA (by Notasi) (qv)
- Inkosi MATANZIMA, had issue.
- Inkosi MTHETHO
- Inkosi MVUZO, had issue.
- Inkosi Dalubuhle Matanzima
- Inkosi Mhlobo Mvuzo Matanzima, Chief of Emigrant
Thembuland, married
Mogedi,
and had issue. He died 1932 (#6 p.3).
- Nkosi Kaiser Dailwonga Matanzima, born 15th June
1915 in Qamata, St
Mark's
District (#6 p.1), entered school at the
age
of seven and in 1930 he was sent to school at Lovedale. He moved on to
Fort Hare University College, where he passed the matriculation
examination
in 1936, and in 1939 graduated with a BA in Roman Law and Political
Science
from the University of South Africa, the first South African chief to
be
awarded a university degree, commenced work with a firm of attorneys in
Umtata in 1940, appointed Chief of the amaHala clan of Thembu in St
Mark's
district in June 1940, appointed by the South African government
to the United Transkeian Territories General Council (the Bunga) in
1942,
but regarding it as "obsolete" he resigned in 1944, later he was made
"permanent
Regional Chief of the Emigrant Thembu districts of St Marks and
Xalanga"
(not just, as formerly, chief of the amaHala in Emigrant Thembuland).
He
rejoined the Bunga in 1955 and his status was further enhanced to
Paramount
Chief under the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959,
Chairman
of the Transkeian Territorial Authority in 1961, Chief Minister of
Transkei
1963/1976, Prime Minister of Transkei 1976/1979 and President of
Transkei
1979/1986, married 1stly 1940, Inkosazana Dade Sangoni, born 1923,
sister
to the late Chief Cranmer Zingisa Sangoni and daughter of the late
Chief
Xolilizwe Sangoni, married 2ndly, 1954, Nozuko Jayinja, married 3rdly,
married 4thly, Irene Nolusapho Matanzima (née Moyakhe), born
24th September 1930, and
had issue. He died 15th June 2003 at the Frontier Hospital in
Queenstown, Eastern
Cape, buried 22nd June 2003 at Qamata Great Place.
- Nkosi Mthetho Matanzima (by Princess Dade),
educated at Fort Hare,
passing
his law examination in 1968, Chief of the Noqayti Region 1969/1972,
married
and had issue, 1 son. He died 1972 (#6 p.14).
- Nkosi Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima, born about
1970, King designate of
Western
Thembuland [abaThembu baseRhoda], married 2004 at Qamata Great Place,
Princess Gcinile
Dlamini,
born about 1985, daughter of HRH Prince Sipho Dlamini of Swaziland.
- Camagwini Matanzima (by Princess Dade), married
(div.), Prince
Madikizela,
and has issue, 5 children.
- Msuthukazi Madikizela
- Nyameka Madikizela
- Mfihlakalo Madikizela (+)
- Zoliswa Madikizela
- Amandla Madikizela
- Nkosi Qabukile Solami Matanzima (by Princess
Irene), born about 1967,
LL.B., Attorney, died sp
12th May 2001 at Khayelitsha, buried 20th May at Qamata.
- Nkosi Luvuyo Matanzima (+) (by Princess Irene)
-
Nondwe Masechaba Matanzima (by Princess Irene),
Professional Land Surveyor with a practice in Bloemfontein; she married
Morena Mophato Monyake of the Bataung tribe in Makhwaba, Mafeteng,
Lesotho.
- Nkosi Bukosi Matanzima, born August 1973.
- Malibongwe Matanzima (f)
- Nobuntu Nophakamisa Matanzima (f), married Chief
Gobizizwe
Mditshwa of the
amaMpondomise (+).
- Bukelwa Nolizwe Matanzima (f), married 16th
December
1995, iNkosi Patekile
Sango Holomisa, Chief of the amaHegebe
and
has issue.
- Nkosi Pinky Matanzima, married and has issue.
- Yolanda Matanzima, born c1980, married 2002,
Zolani Mkiva of the
amaMiya, born 1972, praise singer to Nelson Mandela, Chief Executive
Officer of the Xhosa
Royal Council.
- Nkosi George Mzimvubu Matanzima, born 1918, Prime
Minister of Transkei
1979/1987, married Nowethu, died 1995 and had issue. He died 10th
November
2000 in Queenstown, buried 25th November 2000 in Cofimvaba, Transkei.
- Nkosi Qaqambile Matanzima, married Inkosazana
Nontuthuzelo Nomonde
Gwadiso
of the AmaMpondo Tribe and has issue, two sons.
- Nkosi Zweliyaduma Langalivelile Matanzima
- Nkosi Anele Matanzima
- Nkosi Mfundo Matanzima
- Nkosi Ngangomhlaba Matanzima, Chairman of the
Eastern Cape Traditional
House of Chiefs.
- Inkosi SIGUNAGATHI
- Inkosi JOYI 1849/1863 (Regent)
- Inkosi Enkhulu NGANGELIZWE QEYA 1863/1884, born 1840,
married Novili Nomkafulo
and had issue. He died 31st December 1884 in Thembuland (#3).
- Inkosi Enkhulu DALINDYEBO ALAVA (qv)
- Inkosi SILIMELA (qv)
- Inkosi Enkhulu DALINDYEBO ALAVA 1884/1920, born 1865,
married (amongst
others) Nohajisi, daughter of Makhaula of the Venda,
and had issue. He died 22nd April 1920 in Matyengqina, Umtata (#3a).
- Inkosi Enkhulu JONGELIZWE SAMPU (qv)
- Inkosi JONGINTABA [David Jongintaba Dalindyebo] (qv)
- Inkosi MELIGQILI
- Inkosi MPONDOMBINI
- Inkosi MELITHAFA
- Inkosi Enkhulu DABULAMANZI (qv)
- Princess Norrie Dalindyebo, married Inkosi Nelton
Mabandla of the
amaBhele.
She died in the 1940's.
- Inkosi SILIMELA 1920/1924 (Regent)
- Inkosi Enkhulu JONGELIZWE SAMPU 1924/1928, born 1902,
married (amongst
others) Novothi, and had issue. He died 6th July 1928 of enteric fever.
- Inkosi Enkhulu SABATA (ex Novothi)(qv)
- Inkosi Nxeko Dalindyebo
- Inkosi BAMBILANGA (qv)
- Inkosi JONGINTABA [David
Jongintaba
Dalindyebo] 1928/1942
(Regent), married No England, died after 1960 and had issue. He died
19th
August 1942.
- Justice Mambilang Mtirara, born
1914 (#4),
married Nozolile (Mtirara), and had issue.
- Lulama Mtirara
- Zonwabele Mtirara
- Nokhwezi Mtirara
- Mlungiseleli Mtirara
- Lindelwa Mtirara
- Nomnqophiso Mtirara.
- Princess Nomafu Mtirara
- Inkosi DABULAMANZI 1942/1954
(Regent)
- Inkosi Enkhulu SABATA [Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo]
1954/1980 (deposed),
born 25th November 1928, educated in a school in Qhumanco and later
transferred
to Clarkebury, then transferred to Lovedale late in 1945, and after
only
six months moved on to Healdtown, his stay at Healdtown was curtailed
by
his expulsion "for having cut telephone wires and leading a strike", he
underwent initiation in 1948, at which time he was given the name
Jonguhlanga,
"Watch the Country", installed as Paramount Chief of the Thembu on 30
June
1954, married (amongst others) No Moscow and had issue. He died 1986 in
Lusaka, Zambia, re-buried 1989 in South Africa.
- Inkosi Enkhulu BUYELEKHAYA (qv)
- Princess Ndileka Dalindyebo, married c1986 (traditional)
and 29th
October
1999 in Bumbane (civil) Prince Melika Dlamini of the Swazi Royal Family.
- Inkosi BAMBILANGA [Albert Bambilanga
Mtirara Dalindyebo]
1980/1987, married (amongst others), daughter of Chief Mditshwa of the
amaMpondomise, and had issue. He died 1987
- Inkosi ZONDWA (qv)
- Inkosi Zwelodumo Ndaba Mtirara
(by
daughter of Mditshwa),
local traditional leader.
- Prince Litha Mtirara
- Princess Nompumelelo Mtirara
- Princess Sphila Mtirara
- Princess Ntandekazi Mtirara
- Princess Zizipho Mtirara
- Inkosi Ntando Mtirara
- Inkosi ZONDWA [Zondwa Mtirara]
1987/1989,
born 25th
March 1950 (#5),
former
Transkei Defence Force Army General, married and has issue, 4 sons and
1 daughter. He died July 2005
- Inkosi Mfundo Bovulengwa Mtirara,
born
25th March
1973, Acting Deputy Paramount Chief 2000/-, Chief of the Matye'ngqina
Traditional
Authority Area, married (civil) 6th December 2002 in St John's Anglican
Cathedral in Umtata and (traditional) 7th December at the Thembu Great
Place near Qunu, Princess Nandi Zulu, eldest daughter of King Goodwill
Zwelethini and Queen Buthle of kwaZulu.
- Princess Bathembukazi Mtirara
- Inkosi Enkhulu BUYELEKHAYA [Buyelekhaya Zwelinbanzi
Dalindyebo]
1989/2000 and 2006/-,
born 1964, married (sep'd.), Queen Noluntu, regent of the abaThembu
bakaDalindyebo.
- Queen Noluntu 2000/- (Regent for her husband while he is
away studying).
- Inkosi Jonginyaniso Mtirara -/- (Regent)
- Inkosi Jongisizwe Dalindyebo -/2006 (Regent)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Chief Sebenzani Edward Matanzima
- Chief Jackson Dabulamanzi Matanzima
- Chief Vulindlela Matanzima, married and had issue.
- Daughter, married Chief Jongilizwe Tyhali of the
amaMpondomise.
- Maj.-Gen. Temba Templeton Matanzima, aged 45 at 10-6-1998
- Chief Buntu Sabata
-
 Chief Manzezulu
Mtirara, cousin of Nkosi K.D.Matanzima, Chief in the Lady Frere
District,
married (a) Noqhubile, (b) Noluntu and had issue, 9 children. He died
January
2002 in Queenstown aged 77, buried 9th February 2002 in Gqebenya
Administration
Area near Lady Frere.
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