When Lucy Mcijwa Ncube was born in 1914, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, her father, Tom Macitha Ncube, was 25 and her mother, Nomacebo Nkomo, was 21. She died in January 2003, in Kwekwe, Kwekwe, Midlands, Zimbabwe, at the age of 89.
Zimbabwean: an isibongo or totemic name (‘praise-name’) from Ndebele incube ‘monkey’, or perhaps the cognate of this in a related language such as Zulu.
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