SALM TEAM 
He rules over 65 tribes in South Africa and his mission is to unite all the tribes across Africa as a
nation, reconnecting them with their identity as Africans.
The interesting traditions of the Bantu people of how they take their last child to the river,
smear him or her with clay and “introduce the child to the river” — symbolizing a deep connect
with nature.
“When the child is one month old, he or she is taken to the river and smeared with clay and
covered with leopard skin. The child is presented to the water. We explain the name of the
child (to the river), and after that wash the clay off the child into the river, so that the aroma of
the child is in the river. We dry the child with leopard skin and walk away with it, and don’t look
back at the river. That’s our tradition, and it still exists.”
The tradition is over 3,000 years.
When the child turns one, the ritual is repeated. Then a goat is slaughtered and presented to
the ancestors. “We tell them, this child is your child.”
Then “some fluid from the knee of the sacrificed goat” is taken and rubbed on the knees and
ankles of the child. “So that when the child steps up, it must not be a weak child.”
In another ritual, a piece of skin “from the back of the left leg” of the sacrificed goat is taken
and is tied like an arm band on the right hand of the child.
“It signifies that this child belongs to God and is protected by ancestors,”.
Recounting the process of choosing a king, “When a king is chosen, it will come from the
prophet, or a seer in the tribe. They will go to other tribes also to see if the seer gave them the
exact story (about the chosen one) to verify. They may go to three-four different tribes.”
King Mashiya was an anointed king only in 2023. Before that he was an actor, music producer,
keyboard player. In the Congo region around 1100 BC. There was a man who originated from
the river, (Nile River) next to the reeds (emHlangeni) by the name of Dlomo I, who married in to
the nation of amaNala. Who begot Mbele, Khumalo, Mkhize and Bucwa.
This man was called (yiNkosi yomHlanga), because he came out of the river next to the reeds.
As age got him he handed over his Kingship to Bucwa, who was the heir to his throne. Bucwa
begot Ngelengele, who took over from him, Ngelengele started to migrate to what is called
Zambia today, evidence to that we have a Paramount Chief by name of Chitimkhulu that is
Mthimkhulu who is the ruler of Bembeland in Zambia. Also Chitimkhulu was the ruler of what is
called Angola today, in what was called Kola before.
Ngelengele then moved to a country that is called Zimbabwe today. Ngelengele begot
baBungane Around 270 CE who is Busobengwe, later baBungane became the King. By 600 CE
early Iron Age he led a nation of Mumbo, or as we now know them as abaMbo, or aMbo or
Umbo to the south crossing Limpopo river to a place called Emthonjeni weGwa, that is the main
point of the Vaal river in Mpumalanga, what is known today to be ( Bryeten). BaBungane begot
Dlamini ,Mhlanga, Msimango, Xaba and Mthimkhulu I. Mthimkhulu I begot Zikode, Zikode
begot Ncobo and Hadebe, Hadebe became the first King to rule Natal around 1500, Hadebe
begot Dlomo, Dlomo begot Mashiya, Mashiya begot Ngwekazi, Jozi, Mafu, Manyaza and Ntsele,
Ntsele begot Bungane II , Bungane II begot Mthimkhulu II the list goes on and on.
When we refer ourselves as the Bembe Nation, it is because we are the custodians of the
Mashiya Royal Kingdom of Africa. And also, the direct descendants of Bembe Nation. The
Bembe Kingdom that originate from Congo not Natal as some people refer to, but the great
lakes or Congo as the origin.
That is why the tribes of Africa and also from Natal! Came together and agree to restore the
Mashiya Kingdom of the Bembe people, of which King Mashiya II is the direct descendent of
that Kingdom of the whole of Africa came together and agree to restore Bembe / Angoni. We
are an Indigenous ethnic group in the region of Central Africa; our language is now referring as
Hadza language. We are traditionally classified with the Khoi –San Languages, primarily because
it has clicks, the language appears to be an isolated, unrelated to any other.
As the descendants of the aboriginals of the Hunters-gatherer population, we have occupied
the current territory for thousands of year, with little modification to their basic way of life until
the past hundred years. Here we are dealing with the origin of amaMpembe, and the original
name of this Nation and where we come from. EMBO means: Origin. Before they were called
(amaMpembe, Angoni-Nguni), they were called amaMpembe (Bembe). AmaMpembe is a black
tree that you will find in summer, and those trees are used by girls when they are going for a
ceremony that is called unomKhubulwane and use these trees to make what is called Isidwaba.
As the Nation grows, the Nation was then called amaMpembe.
At the origin of the earth, there was umVelinqange who was created by God. And he created a
man that created a Nation called AmaMpembe, in the region of Congo; Embo-(Central Africa).
Then Came a man, who was wearing a Leopard skin, he was asked of his origin by amaNala, he
answered by saying, I originate from the river, (eMhlangeni), next to the Tomb. As you hear
people talking about (Mhlanga) they don’t know what they’re talking about, and how do they
connect with (Mhlanga). You hear people saying, Inkosi-yohlanga, they don’t know what they
are talking about. The right way of saying it is; (Yinkonsi yoMhlanga) – Kingdom of Kongo (Wene
wa Kongo or Kongo dya Ntotila
