The surname Duma comes from the place called KwaDumisa where Duma people used to fight with lions and win. The word Duma means ‘famous’. Now, you can find Duma people everywhere.
Duma praises
Duma,
Mthombeni,
Ulwandl’ olungawelwa,Oluwelw’ izinkonjane,
Zon’ ezihamba phezulu,Abangongoloz’ abaphekwa netshe,Itshe lavuthwa kuqala, basala bona.
IsiZulu Summary
Isibongo sakwaDuma sitholaka endaweni yakwaDumisa lapho abantu bakhona babelwa namabhubesi bawahlule. Manje batholaka noma ngabe yikuphi abantu bakwaDuma.
By: Bongiwe Ndlovu
A place called Dumisa is very recent and we did not get our surname from the place. Our father “Dumisa” (Dumisa kaMvenya) settled at the place from midlands. The place was named after us… Not that we were named after it. Thank you
I am a Duma aswell from my father,s side. Can you please share some bit of history about where the Duma family comes from and maybe a bit of family tree timeline.
Would be gladly appreciated.
Just trying to understand Self.
Love and Light
Bheka lapha impendulo https://iafrika.org/izithakazelo-zakwa-duma/
I am also a Duma and my surname is Rozani. Sadly, our surname is quite obscure on the internet when searching for information that counts us as part of the Duma clan.
Cofa lapha ukuthola ulwazi ngo Duma https://iafrika.org/izithakazelo-zakwa-duma-clan-names/
Kunjalo Impela Lwandle, Inkosi Dumisa Itshalwe E Midlands, Idlinza Layo Lilapha KwaThunzi.
Did Inkosi Dumisa Ka Mvenya ever met and married a daughter of King Faku in the Mpondo region and ultimately gave birth to 3 sons?
Did Inkosi Dumisa Ka Mvenya ever met and married a daughter of King Faku in the Mpondo region and ultimately gave birth to 3 sons?
Dumisa his grand grandfather was Mthombeni and it makes him Mthombeni
Did Inkosi Dumisa Ka Mvenya ever met and married a daughter of King Faku in the Mpondo region and ultimately gave birth to 3 sons?
Hi I’m a Duma from Qumbu in the Eastern Cape,I think we originate from Swaziland and settled along KZN,Dumisa’s sister was married to a Khoi he then moved to the land of the Khoisans,learned all the Hunting skills and how to live including the traditional Medicine which when he came back he to KZN helped he and was loved by the people of KZN rumour has it that e was the Traditional healer of Shaka,hence there is a town called Mzinto in KZN apparently that’s where Shaka went to win his battle and called Dumisa’s home Umzi Wezinto which then became eMzinto now, even the people of other clans in KZN still ask our family in KZN if we don’t have the medicine used by Dumisa cause it was the bet and never seen before he Passed Away at Underburg KZN yearly we go there as AmaDuma from across Africa I hope this helps you Lwandle aluwelwa
ubambe Yona Mthombeni. ngubani ngoku inkosi ephetheyo in Underberg from the Mthombeni clan?
ngifisa ukuyazi ubani
Then, that makes Dumisa our great great grandfather. Are there any Mthombeni Duma clan lineages who are still living in Underberg today? Secondly, can his grave be located there?
U Mthombeni U Zala U Duma, U Duma Wazala U Lwandle, U Lwandle Wazala U Sibhuzikazi, U Sibhuzikazi Wazala U Menzelwa, U Menzelwa Wazala U Mpanga, U Mpanga Wazala U Thabisa, U Thabisa Wazala U Mvenya, U Mvenya Wazala Inkosi Dumisa, Inkosi Dumisa Yazala U Ngalo (Rhamncana), Sakhayedwa, Sawoti Namanye Amadodane Akhe Amaningi.
Did Inkosi Dumisa Ka Mvenya ever met and married a daughter of King Faku in the Mpondo region and ultimately gave birth to 3 sons?
INKOSI SAKHAYEDWA KA DUMISA
Inkosi Sakhayedwa Ka (son of) Dumisa was a 19th century chief/Inkosi who ruled regions within the traditional Nhlangwini territory in present-day KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, specifically managing lands situated around the Hlogoma mountain, Underberg, Himeville, Mqatsheni where his kraal was established, as well as the upper Pholela River area and lands spanning between the Mzimkhulu and Mkhomazi rivers.
Sakhayedwa settled his kraal below Hlogoma mountain in the early 1860s, an instruction that was given by his father Inkosi Dumisa to go and rule there. The area is close to modern-day Underberg and Himeville. Underberg is not just a place to the entire Mthombeni clan, it is an ancestral homeland before the Mfecane wars. He was going to rule over his people his father knew and had allegiance to by blood, regional ties and intermarriages. He later allocated portions of this land to Trappist monks to establish the Reichenau Mission Station.
His people occupied and farmed lands along the upper Pholela River region in the Drakensberg foothills. Umzimkhulu and Mkhomazi rivers where Headmen and communities under his authority managed territories situated directly between these two major river systems.
As part of the prominent House of Dumisa within the Nhlangwini chieftaincy, his regional influence extended across ancestral lands historically reaching toward Umzimkhulu and surrounding southern Natal districts. Inkosi Sakhayedwa Ka Dumisa fought hard with the white colonial government settlers to have his people in organised places and not be scattered around because of persecutions by the white colonial government settlers from their lands he even said “Lomhlaba wezintaba uyaziwa nguBaba wethu”.
Inkosi Sakhayedwa Ka Dumisa picked up from where his father left off by offering refuge to displaced groups in the southern Drakensberg foothills. Historical accounts note traditional leaders of the Mthombeni clan lineage engaged in strategic diplomacy, land negotiations, and absorbing displaced local communities across the southern KZN and Drakensberg regions.
“Hlogoma mountains” is primarily recognized today as a prominent mountain and farming/lodge area adjacent to Underberg, rather than a distinct recorded chiefdom or polity attributed specifically to a leader named Sakhayedwa in formal historiography.
Inkosi Sakhayedwa Ka Dumisa ancestral lineage genealogy sequence:
King Ndebele (1200s)
↓
King Langa
↓
King Mntungwa (not to be confused with Khumalo Mntungwa son of Mbulazi)
↓
King Jonono
↓
King Nanasi
↓
King Bafana/Mafana
↓
King Mhlanga
↓
King Musi ↓
Mthombeni (the originator of the Mthombeni clan).
Mthombeni > Duma
Duma > Lwandle
Lwandle > Sibhuzikazi
Sibhuzikazi > Menzelwa
Menzelwa > Mpanga
Mpanga > Thabisa
Thabisa > Mvenya
Mvenya > Inkosi Dumisa
Dumisa > Inkosi Sakhayedwa
PHUMLA NGOXOLO DUMA KA MTHOMBENI.
UMSEBENZI OMHLE UWUFEZILE
👑
Inkosi Sawoti ka (son of) Dumisa was a 19th-century chief of the abakwaDumisa clan (eMandleni Traditional Council) in the Alexandra Division (eMzinto area), whose historical impact centered on local governance, land stewardship, and community leadership under colonial administration.
Took over leadership responsibilities when Inkosi Dumisa handed over the chieftainship.Managed clan boundaries and local authority under early colonial administration systems. Inkosi Dumisa Ka Mvenya he shared his portions of (izigodlo) to be governed by his sons while still alive.
Succeeded his father, Dumisa kaMvenya, maintaining the clan’s localized social structure and community identity. Guided his people through the complexities of expanding British colonial oversight and indirect rule in Natal. Dumisa is now used in the isithakazelo (clan praises) (a form of polite address) for the Duma people. It originates from the first of the Duma chiefs named Dumisa ka (son of) Mvenya who led the chiefdom between 1842 and 1876.
Long Roots of Conflict: Land Crisis and Disputes at Umzinto, 1886–1913.
It was during his reign that the British colonial rule intensified issues pertaining to land. The incidents of violence which broke out in the early 1930s were not the first of their kind in the Umzinto district.
Lambert has attributed these conflicts to disputes over land in the aftermath of the sale of the “Crown Lands” within the Umzinto district, which was then known as the Alexandra County.
His followers consequently clashed regularly with the subjects of the neighbouring chiefdoms. The local magistrate sentenced Chief Sawoti Duma to two years’imprisonment in 1886 for an alleged assault on a man from the neighbouring chiefdom. This sentence was later reduced to a fine on appeal from his izinduna. After this incident Chief Sawoti became decidedly contemptuous of the Natal colonial government’s attempts to control him. He publicly boasted that he was stronger than the local magistrate and he developed a reputation as a troublemaker who constantly clashed with the local Natal colonial officials until his death in 1903.
After the death of Chief Sawoti, a succession dispute developed between two of his sons, Gcinabantu (Jack) Duma and Mofi Duma. It seems that there were no serious outbreaks of izimpi zemibango between the Dumisa and neighbouring chiefdoms during the ten year period between 1903 and 1913.
The historic name of Sawoti and the area of KwaDumisa remain important cultural symbols and landmarks on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal near Umzinto. His prominence in the area is memorialized through local designations, including the Sawoti area near Umzinto and regional heritage developments.
Inkosi Sawoti Ka Dumisa ancestral ncestral lineage genealogy sequence:
King Ndebele (1200s)
↓
King Langa
↓
King Mntungwa (not to be confused with Khumalo Mntungwa son of Mbulazi)
↓
King Jonono
↓
King Nanasi
↓
King Bafana/Mafana
↓
King Mhlanga
↓
King Musi ↓
Mthombeni (the originator of the Mthombeni clan).
Mthombeni > Duma
Duma > Lwandle
Lwandle > Sibhuzikazi
Sibhuzikazi > Menzelwa
Menzelwa > Mpanga
Mpanga > Thabisa
Thabisa > Mvenya
Mvenya > Inkosi Dumisa
Dumisa > Inkosi Sawoti
DUMA Ka Mthombeni 👑
Inkosi Sawoti ka (son of) Dumisa was a 19th-century chief of the amaDumisa clan (eMandleni Traditional Council) in the Alexandra Division (eMzinto area), whose historical impact centered on local governance, land stewardship, and community leadership under colonial administration.
Took over leadership responsibilities when Inkosi Dumisa handed over the chieftainship. Managed clan boundaries and local authority under early colonial administration systems. Inkosi Dumisa Divided powers and formally allocated major administrative segments (izigodi) to his sons which occurred strictly during his reign.
Succeeded his father, Dumisa,maintaining the clan’s localized social structure and identity. Guided his people through the complexities of expanding British colonial oversight and indirect rule in Natal. Dumisa is now used in the isithakazelo (clan praises) (a form of polite address) for the Duma people. It originates from the first of the Duma chiefs named Dumisa ka (son of) Mvenya who led the chiefdom between 1842 and 1876.
Long Roots of Conflict: Land Crisis and Disputes at Umzinto, 1886 –1913.
It was during his reign that the British intensified colonial rule to land. The incidents of violence which broke out in the early 1930s were not the first of their kind in the Umzinto district.
Lambert has attributed these conflicts to disputes over land in the aftermath of the sale of the “Crown Lands” within the Umzinto district, which was then known as the Alexandra County.
His followers consequently clashed regularly with the subjects of the neighbouring chiefdoms. The local magistrate sentenced Chief Sawoti Duma to two years’imprisonment in 1886 for an alleged assault on a man from the neighbouring chiefdom. This sentence was later reduced to a fine on appeal from his izinduna. After this incident Chief Sawoti became decidedly contemptuous of the Natal colonial government’s attempts to control him. He publicly boasted that he was stronger than the local magistrate and he developed a reputation as a troublemaker who constantly clashed with the local Natal colonial officials until his death in 1903.
After the death of Chief Sawoti, a succession dispute developed between two of his sons, Gcinabantu (Jack) Duma and Mofi Duma. By then the Natal colonial government had
developed a reputation for resolving succession disputes by dividing the chiefdom
concerned into small sections under the rule of rival claimants. It had done this to the
Mkhize chieftaincy when a succession dispute erupted after the death of Chief Ngunezi
Mkhize in 1894. It seems that there were no serious outbreaks of izimpi zemibango
between the Dumisa and neighbouring chiefdoms during the ten year period between
1903 and 1913.
In the absence of a clear explanation for this, one can only assume that
this was a result of the Natal colonial and, later the Native Affairs Department (NAD) officials’ tighter control over the affairs of the Dumisa chiefdom following their mutually disagreeable encounters with Sawoti before 1903 and the outbreak of an impi yombango between Jack Duma’s followers and the Zembeni people in 1903. In response, the state officials had delayed confirming Jack Duma’s right to the Duma chieftaincy until 1913.It seems that there were no serious outbreaks of izimpi zemibango between the Dumisa and neighbouring chiefdoms during the ten year period between 1903 and 1913.
The historic name of Inkosi Sawoti and the area of KwaDumisa remain important cultural symbols and landmarks on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal near Umzinto. His prominence in the area is memorialized through local designations, including the Sawoti area near Umzinto and regional heritage developments*.
Inkosi Sawoti Ka Dumisa ancestral lineage genealogy sequence:
King Ndebele (1200s)
↓
King Langa
↓
King Mntungwa (not to be confused with Khumalo Mntungwa son of Mbulazi)
↓
King Jonono
↓
King Nanasi
↓
King Bafana/Mafana
↓
King Mhlanga
↓
King Musi ↓
(King Musi had 7 primary sons from different houses and from one of the junior houses a son named Mthombeni (originator of the Mthombeni clan)).
Mthombeni > Duma
Duma > Lwandle
Lwandle > Sibhuzikazi
Sibhuzikazi > Menzelwa
Menzelwa > Mpanga
Mpanga > Thabisa
Thabisa > Mvenya
Mvenya > Inkosi Dumisa
Inkosi Dumisa > Inkosi Sawoti
DUMA Ka Mthombeni 👑
sifisa ukuhlangana nomndeni kasalha yedwa
Inkosi Mbhekela Ka Mvenya ancestral lineage genealogy sequence:
King Ndebele
↓
King Langa
↓
King Mntungwa (not to be confused with Khumalo Mntungwa son of Mbulazi)
↓
King Jonono
↓
King Nanasi
↓
King Bafana/Mafana
↓
King Mhlanga
↓
King Musi
↓
Mthombeni (the originator of the Mthombeni clan).
Mthombeni
↓
Duma
↓
Lwandle
↓
Sibhuzikazi
↓
Menzelwa
↓
Mpanga
↓
Thabisa
↓
Mvenya
↓
Duma II (the 2nd) (married King Faku Ka Ngqungqushe’s daughter)
↓
Mpitshiza
↓
Njangwini
↓
Ngcangcisa
↓
Inkosi Bhuqindlela 👑
Inkosi Bhuqindlela Ka Ngcangcisa ancestral lineage genealogy sequence:
King Ndebele
↓
King Langa
↓
King Mntungwa (not to be confused with Khumalo Mntungwa son of Mbulazi)
↓
King Jonono
↓
King Nanasi
↓
King Bafana/Mafana
↓
King Mhlanga
↓
King Musi
↓
Mthombeni (the originator of the Mthombeni clan).
Mthombeni
↓
Duma
↓
Lwandle
↓
Sibhuzikazi
↓
Menzelwa
↓
Mpanga
↓
Thabisa
↓
Mvenya
↓
Duma II (the 2nd) (married King Faku Ka Ngqungqushe’s daughter)
↓
Mpitshiza
↓
Njangwini
↓
Ngcangcisa
↓
Inkosi Bhuqindlela 👑
Yonela Melisizwe Makinana ancestral lineage genealogy sequence:
[Mthombeni] (The progenitor of the Mthombeni clan)
↓
[Duma]
↓
[Lwandle]
↓
[Sibhuzikazi]
↓
[Menzelwa]
↓
[Mpanga]
↓
[Thabisa]
↓
[Mvenya]
↓
[Ndlangisa]
↓
[Mphitshiza]
↓
[Njangwini]
↓
[Ngcangcisa]
↓
[Bhuqindlela]
↓
[Makinana Ka Bhuqindlela]
↓
[William Makinana]
↓
[Dasi Makinana]
↓
[Thembisile Lawrence Makinana]
↓
[Yonela Melisizwe Makinana]
Induna Ndabazithule was actually a son of Inkosi Dumisa kaMvenya. Historical records of the amaDumisa clan note that Inkosi Dumisa kaMvenya lived a exceptionally long life and had numerous children across his multiple wives.
Since Inkosi Dumisa was a traditional healer (inyanga), his work required him to travel extensively to treat his clients. He frequently travelled to the Mpondo region, under King Faku kaNgqungqushe, who was the king at that time.
During that period, Inkosi Dumisa was a Chief in the (Ntlangwini area), which is relatively close to the Mpondo region. Because of this proximity, there was a lot of interaction with the amaMpondo people, whom he also treated.
As a token of gratitude and appreciation for his healing work, King Faku kaNgqungqushe gave his virgin daughter in marriage to Inkosi Dumisa. From that marriage, Ndabazithule Duma kaDumisa was born in 1835 *. As the Induna Ndabazithule Duma was appointed and allocated the Franklin and Kokstad region as the leader that reported to his father Chief Dumisa Ka Mvenya.
When he reached adulthood at about 23 years old, Ndabazithule fathered Mphitshiza. Mphitshiza later migrated to what is today known as *Stutterheim*, and it was there that he fathered Bhuqindlela.
Shortly after the last Frontier War, Bhuqindlela migrated to the Ngqamakhwe region, where he fathered *Makinana, Bam, Ntlokwana, and other children.*