Skemane

I'm researching my surname origins. My surname is Skemane we changed it from Sikhemane. We don't know it's origins. I'm Xolani Skemane my email is skemanex@gmail.com. Thanks & God bless.
xolani skemane [skemane.x@gmail.com]

Everjoice Manyoni Sithole

I am looking for my sister by name of Everjoice Manyoni Sithole. She was working at Southdown tea company Chipinge at early 90th now I heart that she is married 

Please help me
Kindly
R Sithole Reuben Sethole [reubensethole@gmail.com]

James Brown MacKay

I am trying to fill in missing pieces of my father’s family and leave this for my sons and grandson.

My grandfather James Brown MacKay was born in Lybster, Scotland and went to sea at a young age - that’s what he told me. He moved to Glasgow and operated a marine business with his brothers, and there must have been a family dispute as one brother took off and jumped ship in New Brunswick. The other I think I was told moved to Australia. My grandfather moved the family to Liverpool I would guess around 1930 and to my knowledge he only worked for Elder Dempster Shipping and was an engineer on the MV Apapa for many years. He later served in a land based position with Elder Dempster in Liverpool until he retired around 1960.

Grandad MacKay was not very talkative, and I learned after he died that during WWII he had been part of a salvage recovery team before the US entered the war. Convoy ships torpedoed by the Germans were somehow located and made “seaworthy” and sailed back to the UK to be patched up and sail again. I think his knowledge of the shipping lanes from England to West Africa were a key to his being assigned to the “Wavy Navy” and if anyone has any tidbits of information I would be very grateful.

Sincerely,

Bruce A MacKay

Sonoma, CA, USA

James Brown MacKay

I am trying to fill in missing pieces of my father’s family and leave this for my sons and grandson.

My grandfather James Brown MacKay was born in Lybster, Scotland and went to sea at a young age - that’s what he told me. He moved to Glasgow and operated a marine business with his brothers, and there must have been a family dispute as one brother took off and jumped ship in New Brunswick. The other I think I was told moved to Australia. My grandfather moved the family to Liverpool I would guess around 1930 and to my knowledge he only worked for Elder Dempster Shipping and was an engineer on the MV Apapa for many years. He later served in a land based position with Elder Dempster in Liverpool until he retired around 1960.

Grandad MacKay was not very talkative, and I learned after he died that during WWII he had been part of a salvage recovery team before the US entered the war. Convoy ships torpedoed by the Germans were somehow located and made “seaworthy” and sailed back to the UK to be patched up and sail again. I think his knowledge of the shipping lanes from England to West Africa were a key to his being assigned to the “Wavy Navy” and if anyone has any tidbits of information I would be very grateful.

Sincerely,

Bruce A MacKay

Sonoma, CA, USA

Looking for father

I'm Sinclair Leander Cook,born in Gwanda,Zimbabwe on 22 February 1980,mother is Lillian Priscilla Cook,believe my father was a Rhodesian soldier working in Matebeleland South region,believe he went to South Africa soon after Zimbabwean Independence...anyone with information can contact me on +263 773 486 593... Sinclair leander Cook [cooksinclair@gmail.com]

HIRST family

Hi there
I am trying to trace my HIRST family whom I suspect some of them moved to Zimbabwe in the first half of 20th century

I think it was "John" Guise/Guyse Alexander HIRST as there was a listing of him initially working at Turk Mine in Bulawayo & suspect he moved to Harare & may have worked for the prison authorities

Any info is greatly appreciated on his descendants

I understand that some KINSMAN family members also emigrated there

I have included the link for my site which I would appreciate included on your site
https://sites.google.com/site/hirstkinsmanfamily/family-history

Rgds
Peppa

Hi there
I am trying to trace my HIRST family whom I suspect some of them moved to Zimbabwe in the first half of 20th century

I think it was "John" Guise/Guyse Alexander HIRST as there was a listing of him initially working at Turk Mine in Bulawayo & suspect he moved to Harare & may have worked for the prison authorities

Any info is greatly appreciated on his descendants

I understand that some KINSMAN family members also emigrated there

I have included the link for my site which I would appreciate included on your site
https://sites.google.com/site/hirstkinsmanfamily/family-history

Rgds
Peppa  Peppa [peppamac@gmail.com]

the Ncube's and the Khambule

I have read your blog about the Ncube's and the Khambule as one,but now what buffers me is the Ncube's from Zimbabwe as they don't use the same totems as those from Natal they say they are a Banana clan and when one look at their totems do speak of the banana clan. Then the other thing is the story around the first bantu settlers in Zimbabwe who traded with other tribes making war weapons how they traveled to South Africa and I find again such similarity with the amacube tribe in Natal , which history is being rewritten between the two. n.sicelo@yahoo.com