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  • Tembu regent, Jongintaba Dalindyebo, at his residence in Mvezo.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • So far, there's been more press on whether Amy Winehouse will be well enough to perform at this event than on the honoree, the man they call Madiba -- his clan name in the Tembu tribe -- or the issue.

    Danny Schechter: Honoring Nelson Mandela at 90 2008

  • Matanzima belonged to the same Tembu royal kraal as former president Nelson Mandela.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • II of the baSotho, Dinizulu of the Zulu, Khama of the Becuana, Marclane of the amaMpondo, Dalindyebo of the Tembu, Montsioa of the baRolong, Moepi of the baKgatla and Lewanika of the BaRotse.

    ANC Today 2003

  • In additional being Transkei's first ruler, Matanzima was also a royal member of the same Tembu clan as former president Nelson

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • He belonged to the same Tembu royal kraal as former president

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Tembu, Montsioa of the baRolong, Moepi of the baKgatla and Lewanika of the BaRotse.

    ANC Today 2003

  • They had been mandated by the Madiba clan, Tembu chiefs and "the tribe as a whole" to ask for his release.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Mtirara is a senior chieftain in the Tembu tribe's Madiba clan, which counts among its elders former President Nelson Mandela.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • In a letter to the UDM's national chairman he asked to be released from his parliamentary duties to "attend to matters of the Tembu chieftainship".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

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