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| Lobengula
and the subjugation of Changamire |
It is disputed whether the Rozvi people
were Shona or whether they emerged from the Mutapa
Kingdom. Changamire Dombo, the founder of was in fact
called Tombolaikonachimwango Chimuloyichamavengeni. He
got the name Changamire from the Portuguese after
defeating them in war and driving them away from
Zimbabwe. "mire" is supposed to be a
Portuguese title.
His people were originally called the baTetsi but they
got the nickname "varozvi" again from the
Portuguese and this was because they like the Zulu and
Ndebele after them were raiders and used to take by
force. Kurozva has now been incorporated into Shona and
it has roughly the same meaning. |
The Rozvi were therefore a tribe on their
own and history books in Botswana say the Rozvi actually
migrated from Botswana and they were known there as the
baKalanga. It was the tendency that tribes were given
their names by their neighbours and this is why the
Ndebele got their name from the Sotho.
It is also disputed that the Rozvi were defeated by the
Ndebele. There was unending war in Matabeleland and
Mzilikazi couldn't stop it. Tohwetjipi or Sibumbamu
continued to fight and peace was only obtained in
Matabeleland through the shrewd political architecture of
Lobengula who unlike his father was more interested in
building a nation and consolidating it. This then gave
rise to the emergence of the Ndebele kaMambo who are Rozvi
and Kalanga. |
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| It is also important to realise that up to
the early 20th Century tjiKalanga, the language of the
Rozvi, was still the official language in Zimbabwe since
Lobengula had among other things made the Rozvi religion
the supreme religion in the whole of Matabeleland and this
was the same for Mashonaland. Kalanga language still has
lots of traces even in Mashonaland and in the Mashonaland
places that the Rozvi settled after the succesion dispute
in BuLozvi at the start of the nineteenth century, still
have Kalanga words and this is true of Nyamweda and Ngezi
in Mhondoro, Dombotombo in Marondera and also in Bhasvi's
area in Wedza where we have names such as Chaza, Hangi
etc. |
| Submission By: Julius
Mutyambizi-Dewa |
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