History and genealogy of Kings:

The wives  of  King TSHWANE  are not remembered, but according to tradition he had six sons, each by a different wife, and these sons headed the portions of the tribe that now broke off and went each its own way, to establish new tribes elsewhere. These sons are named in the skeleton genealogy already given above. The first to depart was Letsoalo, who established himself east  of ~Pietersburg. The next was Moletlane @Kekana who also went north and founded the Sebitliela tribe(present day Zebediela) The third was Mopo who settled at Bosfontein in Rustenburg, founding the Bapo tribe, from Which in turn the Tlhako tribe originated. The fourth was Malete, whose descendants live in Bechaunaland, present day Botswana.

The fifth was Manala@Mabhena , who founded Manala Section of Ndebele, from which again the Tsutsa or Ndzundza broke off. The first was MODIMAKWANE. Modimakwane  did not stay where his father had lived but moved to Ga Raletsoku on Klipdrift 87, south of Hamanskraal, and there he died. His wives and children are not remembered except his son and successor IV Madumo, who moved to Mohalaube on Dewitskraal 519, south-east of Pienaars River station and then again to Mmametlhakeon Bultfontein 472, east of Mackenzie siding, where he died. His wives and their issue are not remembered, except his son and successor V PETE, who lived and died there. PET.E’s, vives and issue are not remembered except his successor VI MATHIBE. He also ruled peacefully there until he was killed in a battle with the Bakwena ba Mogopa, at the  Matlharc or MALLAPHIRI koppies near Brits. He was buried there.

11 MATHIBE’s wives are not remembered, but tradition says that he had three different huts he had these sons r (a) KGOSI 2 (a) Nkutlweng, father of Motsckctla and 3 (a) Mohapi. _After MATHIBE’s death he was succeeded by his son Vll KGOSI, who continued to live at Mametlhake until he moved to Matlhoku ,,an area near, and west of, the intersection of the railway and the Mogalakwena, i.e. at the  Moordrift memorial. The reason for this migration was their fear of Mzilikazi, who had already worsted them once. This may therefore have been around 1825. After a sojourn at  Matlhoku they left for Lehobe, near and west of Modimollemountain and therefore not far from Nylstroom. Subsequently they moved again and settled at Khwadubeng the present location on Witgatboom 62. As by this time the Voortrekkers had come into the country, but were still far away, this may have been ca. 1840.

Nevertheless, for fear of them they migrated to Phatametsanein Sekukunilan They kept themselves independent there, and fought off the Ndzundza Ndebele when they molested them. After a stay of many years the whole tribe moved back again to Khwadubeng , their present location. Here KGOSI died in ca. 1877 ( ?).

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