Tswa

Even so, women's pots still speak of the more expansive landscapes of their pasts, for the tinhlanga carefully carved onto the Xihluku potters 'makhuwana bear a striking resemblance to designs found on similarly shaped vessels from "long ago" and far awayElena's on remnants unearthed at the site of the tenth-century Khosa village at Massingir and on a "Tswa" pot from Inhambane, found in South Africa in the 1960s; Julia's on remnants from the other two, allegedly Sotho Massingir sites, and on modern as well as ancient Phalaborwa pots photographed by researchers in the early 1970s.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The area around Maputo city is identified as Ronga, and all of Inhambane province except the southern coastal area (predominantly Chopi) is identified as Tswa.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005