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Titles. King, natively: Ingonyama yamaZulu. The Zulu royal family, also known as the House of Zulu (Zulu: abakwaZulu, lit. 'people of the place of Zulu') [1] consists of the king of the Zulus, his consorts, and all of his legitimate descendants. The legitimate descendants of all previous kings are also sometimes considered to be members.
The Zulu Kingdom (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo; Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or the Kingdom of Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa.During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in ...
Zulu royal family: Dingane kaSenzangakhona: c. 1795 – 29 January 1840 (aged 44–45) November 1828: 29 January 1840: Half-brother of Shaka kaSenzangakhona: Zulu royal family: Mpande kaSenzangakhona: 1798 – 18 October 1872 (aged 73–74) 10 February 1840: 18 October 1872: Half-brother of Dingane kaSenzangakhona: Zulu royal family: Cetshwayo ...
The battle for the throne of South Africa’s ethnic Zulu nation has reached the courts as a faction of the royal family seeks to dethrone the king after less than a year. The North Gauteng High ...
Desmond Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first Black African to hold the position.
The Zulu were originally a minor clan in what is today Northern KwaZulu-Natal, founded c. 1574 by Zulu kaMalandela. In the Nguni languages, iZulu means heaven or weather. At that time, the area was occupied by many large Nguni communities and clans (also called the isizwe people or nation, or called isibongo, referring to their clan or family ...
Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (/ ˌmæŋɡoʊˈsuːtuː ˈɡætʃə ˌbʊtəˈleɪzi /; [3] 27 August 1928 – 9 September 2023) was a South African politician and Zulu prince who served as the traditional prime minister to the Zulu royal family from 1954 until his death in 2023. He was appointed to this post by King ...
Goodwill Zwelithini. Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu (27 July 1948 – 12 March 2021) [1] was the King of the Zulu nation from 1968 to his death in 2021. He became King on the death of his father, King Cyprian Bhekuzulu, in 1968 aged 20 years. Prince Israel Mcwayizeni acted as the regent from 1968 to 1971 while the King took refuge in the then ...