Lavumisa

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Lavumisa
Town
Lavumisa
Country Eswatini
District Shiselweni
Named afterlate 1800s
Named after LaVumisa Ndwandwe

Lavumisa is a town located in the Shiselweni district of southern Eswatini. It was named after Queen LaVumisa Ndwandwe, a wife of King Sobhuza I. [1] . [2]

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History

The area around present-day Lavumisa forms part of the wider Maputaland-Lubombo region that was occupied during the early precolonial period by Nguni-speaking community of Embo origin. [3] Sons of Langa, an early Embo-Nguni ruler, one called Dlamini I and the other Hlubi, lived together in the area of present-day Lavumisa. [3]

In the 19th-century during a power struggle between King Mswati II and half-brothers Malambule, Tsekwane, Fokoti, Sidubela and Ndlela (sons of LaVumisa Ndwandwe) and their subsequent expulsion from Eswatini by King Mswati II and Prince Somcuba to seek refuge with Zulu King Mpande, [4] Tsekwane returned to Eswatini and died in Lavumisa towards the late 1800s. [5]

Geography

It is a border crossing point to the neighbouring town of Golela in South Africa. Highway MR8 and the railway cross here.

Lavumisa recorded a temperature of 47.4 °C (117.3 °F), which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Eswatini. [6]


27°19′S31°54′E / 27.317°S 31.900°E / -27.317; 31.900

References

  1. ↑ Westcott, Michael; Hamilton, Carolyn (1992): In the cracks of Swazi past: A historical tour of the Ngwane and Swazi kingdom, PDF download, Swaziland Oral History Project. Page 29-31 (3 pages)
  2. ↑ Swaziland Oral History Project (1970): Oral history interview on Ndwandwe–Swazi relations , Interview with Mkhonto at Zikhothaneni. Emandulo Digital Repository and translated by Mag Dlamini, ISBN   0333479084. Accessed 14 January 2026
  3. 1 2 Sikhondze, Bonginkosi Bhutana. State Within A State: The History of the Evolution of the Mamba clan of Swaziland Transafrican Journal of History, vol. 15, 1986, pp. 144–63. JSTOR. Accessed 22 Dec. 2025.
  4. ↑ Eldredge, Elizabeth A. (2015): Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa: Oral Traditions and History, 1400-1830. New York: University of Rochester Press. Page 232. ISBN   9781580465144
  5. ↑ Biographical notes on LaVumisa, Malambule and related Ndwandwe figures (PDF Metranscript) , Chapter 1 (background); Chapter 2 (revision), 23 March 1993, University of the Witwatersrand Historical Papers, Emandulo Digital Archive, Pages 24, Accessed 14 January 2026
  6. ↑ "Groundwater Resources of Swaziland" (PDF). Swaziland Ministry of Natural Resources, Land Use and Energy. December 1992. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2022.


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