zulu history has been twisted and tormented for years by european perception.nguni groups have similarities and the stories were twisted to cause seperation.the zulu custom of face cutting and stretching earlobes wich is also practices by the bacha who r directly related to the zulu royal house and some ndebele and other nguni groups who split from the zulu nation.ndebele in zim botswana eastern cape lesotho trace the origin to mzilikakzi khumalo who was general of shaka and king of the khumalo son of mashobane and the mother was daughter of the ndwandwe king zwide nxumalo ka langa.distancing urselves as ndebele people is loosing urselves.within kingdoms there r subkingdoms and within kingdoms there r subchiefs.zwide was also related and can trace themselves to malandela great great grandson of nguni .the fore farther of all nguni’s.nguniland settled in the east coast of south africa 2000 years ago and intetmarried with the khoisan.mzilikazi was the main king of the mtungwa.hence mtungwa is the royal surname of the ndebele moving away to another place does not seperate u from ur people.u can be a mtungwa,gatsheni ,mageba and eithe be zulu,xhosa,swati or ndebele these r regimentsin most the swati and ndebele and shanggan wich were created by shaka to go and conquer and build the zulu empire and some never returned.these r only a few of the nation wich split from the zulu.every nation has a seniir royal house.like the british who r more senior and settle in a small area to repredent ellitness.like in the batswa the bahurutshe are more senior part of the bakwena house.ndebeles ar not only in kwandebele remember it was a migration and ndebele in lesotho who is a mosotho never reached pretoria or zimbabwe or botswana or the north west.aftet mzilikazi died the ndebele nation split and the main body ended up in now zimbabwe.hence u do find khumalos ,ngwenya’s mahlangu’s,mabena,ntuli’s ,mnguni’s in zimbabwe matebele land.ndebele’s r everywere from limpopo to the northewest and because rhey were scattrerd and left behind during mzilikazi defeat from the war against the boers others took on other nations idendities.everywhere u go from lesotho to botswana ndebele people tell u they arrived there through mzilkazi and were originally zulu.there are alot of nations who split gro. the zulu some retain theor customs and some forgot and are also confused and some submerged in to other nations.the other clans talked aboout like the bacha wich i read are even zulu even if the went to the eastern cape and form part of the xhosa nation now.it’s very important not to assume.zulu people cannot know that place in zwaziland or kwandebele.if a tribe seperstes from another tribe they move elsewhere and create their own history and denying their past and creating their own for self entitlement will cause a lost soul.the zulu were not a small tribe they were one of the bigger nguni clans not the biggst.the mthethwa were the largest and in nguni culture it was known of shakas coming to unify his people.proper history must be presented cause what is witten on the internet is mostly assumption and mostly twisted stories wriiten by europeans.alot of ndebeles must make proper research and nguni’s.eg.mzilikazi’s son was born in grahams town hence other ndebele’s in zimbabwe have a xhosa accent.mzilikazi was one of shaka’s greatest generals and prior leaving him conqured manny a nations.hence even some ndebele in zimbabwe are from sotho’s and tswana’s.and people shaka was not the first zulu king he was it’s greatest.and secondly to bring some common sense.not àllĺ zulu are mageba,not all ndebele are mtungwa not all swati are ngwane.shaka unfied nguni people hence he intermingle nguni people and regiments hence ndebele people swati xhosa and some shangaan u find people from different nguni houses.prior a regiment will only be a khumalo regiment and ndwandwe regiment or an nkosi regiment ora subclan coming from the same house.and i saw the in the topic were whoever wrote the topic cought himself and said the ndebele split from the bhaca.the bhaca are infact directly bo mageba zulu and branched off during difecane to the eastetn cape flering wars and prior some coming back.hence i realised someone was assuming history.history on assumption is dangerous