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uMandulo

This is a moon with three names – uMandulo, uMpande & iSokanqangi.  andula – the herald, the harbinger, the rituals to bring about fertility, the kites wheeling like whirlwinds in the sky. this name was adopted after the accession of uMpande to the throne, as an isihlonipho.  Before Cetshwayo’s father, youngest son of uSenzangakhona, acceded […]