umfu.  alph lukau we--alleluia ministries international bekungene leli cala elithinta okwenzakala ngesikhathi ethandazela indoda okwakusolakala ukuthi ifile enkantolo yasegoli namhlanje. qwathi – iinkomo zikaxesibe, zikajojo, zikamtshutshumbe, ogqaz'indlel'ebhek'ebunguni. (the amaqwathi are not a clan but an independent nation founded by mtshutshumbe kamthetho who split from the amaxesibe nation and settled in the mqanduli area in thembuland some 350 years ago. later they settled in their present capital of engcobo during the reign of king dlomo of abathembu, about 1680. this small but fiercely independent and anti--colonial nation divides into several clans: amadikela, amatshaba, oosdindi, oobhlangwe, oobhose, amanzolo, imincayi, amantondo, amakhombayo, oomkhondweni, amavumbe, ookhebesi, amabangula, amadumba, oomhotho, oocakeni, oobhabha, amamvala, amadabisa, oos'ximba, etc. prominent chiefs include the anti--colonial stokwe ka--ndlela, dalasile kafubu, fubu himself (who fought and killed both rharhabe and his son mlawu in 1782, defended his capital and defeated madzikane of the bhaca in 1824 and matiwane of ngwane in 1828 during the mfecane wars triggered by shaka, etc.), zwelakhe (present chief))