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‘Real Shangaans’ are Nguni by blood. They intermarried with Vatsonga, and assimilated into Xitsonga and Vutsonga. Don’t confuse the two. If anything, Shangaans are Tsonga by assimilation, language & practice, not the other way round.
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I refer to ‘real Shangaans’ because there are Vatsonga who have no trace of Nguni blood, yet they proudly call themselves Shangaans. There are many reasons to that end: distorted history, inferiority dynamics, and ignorance.
There’s a clear trace of Vatsonga’s existence frm as early as the 1400s. While the Shangaan dynasty was only est. in the early 1800s when Mdungaise & his men arrived in Vutsonga from present-day KZN. The purpose was to subjugate Vatsonga in the process of building the Zulu empire
