Tsabedze in the sources
Tsabedze is a name on our own planning list of Swati clans. We searched three standard sources and found no entry for it.
What the sources say
What we searched. The full text of Bonner’s history of the Swazi state (1983), Bryant’s Olden Times (1929) and Soga’s South-Eastern Bantu (1930), under Tsabedze and the variants Tshabedze, Tsabede. None of the three has an entry or a passage on a clan of this name.
Cautions
This page is therefore still a listing. We would rather say so than fill it with material we cannot source. We searched the full text of Bryant (1929), Soga (1930) and Bonner (1983) under the spellings given here and under likely variants; absence from these books says nothing about whether the family is old or important, only that these three sources are silent.
Izithakazelo and totem
If you belong to the Tsabedze and can tell us where the family came from, its praises and its totem, we will record it, credited to you.
Sources and further reading
- Philip Bonner, Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: the evolution and dissolution of the nineteenth-century Swazi state (Cambridge University Press, 1983); read by OCR from a scanned copy, printed page numbers given
- A. T. Bryant, Olden Times in Zululand and Natal (London: Longmans, 1929); read in the Internet Archive text, including its alphabetical table of clan names and address-names near the end (machine-read, with garbled columns)
- J. H. Soga, The South-Eastern Bantu (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1930); Internet Archive text
Do you belong to the Tsabedze? Tell us your izithakazelo and what elders say about the family’s history, and we will add it, credited to you. Share what you know or WhatsApp 065 138 8213.