Ntimane

Elena's mother, Munen'wasse Ngonyama, was born in Ntimane (Manhiça) and learned potmaking from her mother, Muchurhu Sitoi, an Ndau woman from "Musapa" north of the Save River, near Beirawho arrived in Ntimane as either a captive of or a refugee from late nineteenth-century Gaza warfare.

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A rather different though perhaps more dramatic example involves two sisters who grew up in ka Ntimane (in Manhiça district, along the coast), and who married into Magude district a few years apart.

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Tercina and Talita Ntimane, sisters from a coastal village in ka Ntimane (Manhiça) who married prominent church men in Facazisse and Makuvulane (respectively) in the early 1950s, seemed surprised when I asked them whether they had ever cut tinhlanga.

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Aida Dzamba, her mother Tercina Ntimane, and her children (especially young Arnaldo) held me steadfastly to my course whether through Aida's help with the rigors of interviewing, Tercina's maternal kindnesses, or unforgettable family evenings of story performance and song.

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Note 105: Interview with Tercina Ntimane, 21 June 1995, Facazisse; interview with Talita Ntimane, 11 July 1995, Facazisse.

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Note 77: Interview with Talita Ntimane, 11 July 1995, Facazisse.

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There, she met a young woman, N'waMusakaza Ntimane, who through marriage would become Elena's ntukulu (granddaughter), because N'waMusakaza's mother's father and Elena's future father-in-law were uterine siblings.

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Tercina and Talita Ntimane, both born in the 1930s, received their birth names from their father, a prominent member of the Swiss Mission church in Manhiça.

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Note 60: Sinai Mundlovu, "Matimu," 5; interview with Tercina Ntimane, 19 February 1996, Facazisse; interview with Alfredo Sambo, 3 October 1996, Facazisse.

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While roughly half of the women in the group identified themselves as Shangaan, the others answered in one of three ways: by restating their clan name (e.g. Khosa, Ntimane); by identifying with a supra-clan label other than Shangaan (e.g. MuSotho, MuNgoni, MuChopi, Mabuyandlela 24) and then adding that they were "MuChangana" as well; or by calling themselves by the name of one of the so-called "dialect groups" of the Tsonga (e.g. MuHlengwe, MuHlanganu, MuN'walungu).

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