Mpande's - University of Zululand Institutional Repository

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Mouths ofhippopotamus were wide-open,
Crocodiles survived by climbing mountains.
Mnguni sat down
Soothesaying difficult matters,
Spoken in his household ofMalandela.
He made war-shields,
Making them on wild-banana hedge.
He built houses with seeds ofgrass,
He built huts with grass.
He asked for Mpofana and Ndaka Rivers,
He said that Mzinyathi River
I will ask for it from Silevu
You were enraged between two months,
Between May and June,
And went through Dlinza forest and Eshowe,
Stems oftrees went up-side-down.
You survived between Mpehlela and Maqhwakazi mountains
Stems oftrees went up-side-down.