Hleke kaNgcande, amaHleke Chief

Oral tradition tells that the Mdange & Hleke might have been twins.

Apparently the mother of Phalo gave birth to a posthumous son of Tshiwo, who was hidden by his uncle Mdange until his maturity. He took over the Xhosa Kingship after a battle with his older half-brother, Gwali Peires, JB: ‘The House of Phalo’. 1981, Raven Press, Johannesburg, SA

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Togu had three sons

• Ntinde who founded the amaNtinde tribe,
• Ketshe who founded the amaBhayi and
• Ngconde who was Paramount.

Ngconde’s children were

• Hleke founder of the amaHleke,
• Mdange (~ 1736) of the imiDange
• Gando of the amaKwayi and
• Tshiwo (~1704) who was Paramount to all Xhosa speaking nations in the region. http://amaxhosa.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/umzi-kaphalo-house-of-phalo/