Dedesi

Dedesi is remembered as an ancestral river beneath the Drakensberg, in the upper Mzimvubu country. Traditions connect its valley with the early histories of the Xhosa, Thembu and Mpondomise. One account tells how Malangana led the abaMbo across the Umzimkhulu and settled near the river's source, where they joined communities under Togu and Hala. Other traditions remember a later movement from Dedesi towards the coast, led by the Xhosa chief Sikomo.