In the second of four extracts from the Ancestral Voices writings that will be published by City Press during Heritage Month, we look back at the history of the Nkuna Tribe.
In the year 1833 Manukuse , the leader of the Nguni tribe, announced the launch of a circumcision school at Bileni. All looked well. However, a year later in 1834, he was on the move. He left the area , together with the Nkhavelana tribe, the Mabunda tribe and several others and headed to Nkanghala .
In order to avert the imminent bloody annihilation, there was no alternative but to fight. They resolved and vowed to fight against him. After a ferocious battle, the allied forces of the Nkuna, Nkhavelana and Mabunda tribes finally lost heart, disengaged. They fled before the enemy in their multitudes. They were defeated and scattered in all directions.
Hosi Shilubana went ahead with his people. When they arrived at Vulolwana, he had a dreadful dream. When he awoke, the picture the dream had conjured up in his mind was so terrible as it showed a bleak way forward.Naturally, he told his group to turn back. He announced that he was so weary that he could not continue with the journey. He remained encamped by the river, with some of his people. Meanwhile, Hosi Shilubana led his tribe forward, with a few clans of the Mabunda tribe having decided to soldier on with him.
When the Nkuna tribe left Timpukanini, they settled at eBokgaha in 1839. They settled alongside the Bokgaha people, who were under the leadership of a woman, Queen Maale.
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