Where did the ancestors of the Dlamini clan live before moving toward Eswatini?

Before moving toward present-day Eswatini, the ancestors of the Dlamini clan were part of a southward migration of Bantu-speaking peoples that reached the Delagoa Bay area of Mozambique well before the arrival of the Portuguese in the early 16th century.12

In that region, they settled as part of the Thembe-Tonga group of peoples until the mid-18th century. During this period, they were known as the Emalangeni, named after an ancestral chief called Langa. Following dynastic conflict, they migrated southward along the coastal plain before moving westward through the Lubombo range and up the Pongola valley, where they eventually established the nucleus of the Swazi nation around 1770.12