Djonga

Djonga is a name associated with Tsonga-speaking communities of southern Mozambique. The Komati River crosses this broader country, cutting through the Lebombo hills before winding across the coastal plain towards the Indian Ocean. Traders and hunters from the coastal regions travelled west into the lowveld. In the nineteenth century the growth of the Gaza kingdom changed the lives of communities between the Komati and Limpopo, and some moved west along established routes.