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Embhuleni is a royal village in South Africa's Mpumalanga province. It is located in Badplaas and is the home of the Chief of Embhuleni, Prince Makhosonke Dlamini. [1] Embhuleni is one of the villages in South Africa where the annual Ummemo Cultural Event (a Swazi cultural celebration) [2] takes place. Its authority under Chief Dlamini is known as Embhuleni Traditional Council, [3] and is represented in the South African House of Traditional Leaders. [4] [5]
The village has been in existence since c.1842. [6] It was built by Mswati II as a military post to safeguard eSwatini land against possible invasion by the Bapedi. The Embhuleni regiments were subjected to the rule of one of Mswati II's wives, Nandzi 'LaMagadlela' Khumalo. The first house of the Embhuleni royal family was built in Tjakastad on the foot of Mkhingoma Mountain and had since been moved to Badplaas. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south, and southeast. At no more than 200 km (120 mi) north to south and 130 km (81 mi) east to west, Eswatini is one of the smallest countries in Africa; despite this, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.
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KaNgwane was a bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government to be a semi-independent homeland for the Swazi people. It was called the "Swazi Territorial Authority" from 1976 to 1977. In September 1977 it was renamed KaNgwane and received a legislative assembly. After a temporary suspension of its homeland status during 1982, the legislative assembly was restored in December 1982. KaNgwane was granted nominal self-rule in August 1984. Its capital was at Louieville. It was the least populous of the ten homelands, with an estimated 183,000 inhabitants. Unlike the other homelands in South Africa, KaNgwane did not adopt a distinctive flag of its own but flew the national flag of South Africa.
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Prince Johannes Mkolishi Dlamini, was the Chief of Embhuleni in Badplaas between September 1954 until his death, at age 59, in December 1988. A great-grandson of Mswati II, Mkolishi was the son of the previous Chief of Embhuleni, Prince James Maquba Dlamini, and his wife Mkhosise Madonsela.
Chief of Embhuleni is the title for the head of Embhuleni, an eSwatini royal village located in South Africa's Mpumalanga province. The authority is called Embhuleni Traditional Council, and is represented in the South African House of Traditional Leaders. The official residence of the Chief of Embhuleni is in Badplaas, and the current chief is Prince Cambridge Makhosonke Dlamini, one of Prince Mkolishi Dlamini's children. The royal village was built by Mswati II in c.1842 as a military post to safeguard eSwatini land against possible invasion by the Bapedi. The first house of the Embhuleni royal family was built in Tjakastad on the foot of Mkhingoma Mountain. Mswati II's regiments were subjected to the rule of his wife, Nandzi 'LaMagadlela' Khumalo.
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