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The wild pig clans (Dikolobe) are the
Modjadji, Mabulana, Mohale, Maha-
sha, Mokwebo, Mampeule, Molokwane,
Thobela and Ramafalo all this are de-
scendants of the ancient Mokwebo (wild
pig) royal house. All Chiefs in Bolobedu
are of the wild pig clans with the excep-
tion of the chiefs of Ga-Wally (Ha-Wale).
The elephant clan are Rabothata, Selowa
(Khelowa/Tshilowa/Shilowa), Shai, Mat-
lou (Ma₫ou), Mabulana and Maenetja,
these are the descendants of the ancient
royal house of Nengwekhulu.

The BaLobedu/BaLotswi are more closely
related to the Rozwi Kingdom started by
Changamire Dombo, rather than Mwene
Mutapa as has been widely believed.As
they were migrating southward, another
splinter went South-East. The Norther-
an Rozvi/Lozei are found in the present
day Zambia in Livingston. They settled
alongside the Zambezi River Banks day
establish it as Musioa-thunya(storms that
thunders), present day Victoria falls. They
have the praise lines Sai/Shai and Dewa,
and call themselves the people of Thobe-
la, which is the same as the Rozvi/Kala-
nga. The rainmaking powers of Queen
Modjadji are also synonymous with the
Njelele Shrine in BuLozvi/SiLozvi (in pres-
ent-day Matabeleland, Zimbabwe) and it
is therefore accepted that there is an in-
tertwining of their history with the rest of
the Rozvi. Linguists have listed Lobedu to-
gether with Kalanga, Nambya (a dialect of
Kalanga), Venda, Lemba, Shankwe, Nyubi
(an extinct Shona dialect) and Karanga, as
a language of the Rozvi, and consequent-
ly connects them to their history. Their
rainmaking history is tied by some to the
claimed Jewish and Egyptian connections
of the Rozvi.