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- ↑ "Isizwe SamaHlubi: Submission to the Commission on Traditional Leadership Disputes and Claims: Draft 1" (PDF). July 2004. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Swazi at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
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