Present day Shona as part of the Kingdom of Mthwakazi? None. The only one king of the Karanga people (now relabeled Shona) who was part of the Mthwakazi Kindom was Tshibi of the AbeTshabi people and his land today is still known as Chivu.

When the Ndebele interacted with any other people even just in a once off battle, they kept those people's  original names and corrupted its pronounciation out of respect of identity and to preserve that contact for their history. What is the Ndebele corrupted name for Shona or for Mhunumutapa? Its not there like in the case of Tshibi of the Karanga confirming that the larger part of today's Shona people never interacted with the Ndebele/Mthwakazi Kingdfom of yesterday. The Karanga of Chibi yes....the rest of the Shona no.    

Second when the Ndebele/Mthwakazi fought in any battle with any one, that war would be recorded in the totems of some distinguished fighters in that particular battle as part of the documentation of that battle. Show us any Ndebele family that has any totem from any Ndebele/Shona battles? There is none.

The Ndebele Mthwakazi people respected nations that they had any form of important trade with. The Ndebele did not grow and process snuff yet it was  central to their everyday lives and spirituality. Where did they buy it from? From as far as koSanyathi. What the settlers called the hunters road was a well established trade route between the Mthwakazi and its neighbours now called the Shona. How do you develop a highway trade route with people that you are always at war with, stupid?

And yet everyday our young people are taught of Ndebele / Shona hate wars that go back in history? Where does this fiction come from? It comes from only one reason.....why the Mthwakazi Kindom had to be attacked from the now MaShonaland in 1893. That is where all this fiction comes from. This fiction can be traced right from the military advance towards the Mthwakazi kingdom in 1893 from MaShonaland into the 1929 Shona Ndebele Bulawayo African Township battles, into 1963 nationalism political splits, into the liberation struggle camps, into the Gugurahundi genocide and right into today's academic circles........and the colonial settler narrative goes on.......but for how long our people? Who will decolonise your minds if you do not do it yourselves?

@Response by Khulu Mhlanga - #TheWalk History forums