Mhlanga · zebra
Mhlanga is kept by the Mhlanga Dhuve clan, and its animal is the zebra. The National Archives, as quoted for Chipinge district, give Chief Mapungwana's people Dube as their totem and Mhlanga as their chidawo, and Dube, like Dhuve, is the zebra. Its poem greets the clan as Dhuve and as Mapanda, Muriwo, Bhasera, Mapfupfu and Chivara, names it shares with the Tembo poems.
The Mhlanga poem is a thanksgiving spoken to a father (babayo), a child of one's own bearing. It remembers hard days, the sun blazing, waiting by the road, mouths dry with hunger, and greets the clan at Mupamba, Zomba and Chirinda. Chivara and Zomba also appear in the Tembo Mazvimbakupa and Wakapiwa poems, and Dhuve, the name it greets the clan by, is the one the Wikipedia article on the Shona gives to men of the zebra group.
Mhlanga mutupo wedzinza reMhlanga Dhuve. Detembo ravo rinovakudza seDhuve, Mapanda, Muriwo naChivara. Rinorangarira nguva yenzara, zuva richipisa, miromo yaoma. Hapana gwaro pano rinodudza mhuka yavanoera.
The zebra. The National Archives, as quoted for Chipinge district, give Chief Mapungwana's people Dube as their totem and Mhlanga as their chidawo, and Dube, like Dhuve, is the zebra. The clan's poem also shares the names Chivara and Zomba with the Tembo poems. No source supports the reedbuck.
Men are greeted as Dhuve, and the poem also calls the clan Mapanda, Muriwo, Bhasera, Mapfupfu and Chivara. Women are greeted as Mhlanga.
Mhlanga Dhuve.
Traditionally, people of the same mutupo and chidawo do not marry: they are counted as one family. Between different Mhlanga clans some families allow it, often after a ceremony that cuts the kinship (kucheka ukama).
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