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The Zulu King lineage stretches to as far as Luzumana, who is believed to have lived as long ago as the 16th century. Luzumana is the child of Ngoni, but details ...
Shaka kaSenzangakhona (c. 1787 –24 September 1828), also known as Shaka Zulu (Zulu pronunciation:) and Sigidi kaSenzangakhona, was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828. One of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu , he ordered wide-reaching reforms that reorganized the military into a formidable force.
King Misuzulu kaZwelithini's great-great-great-great-grandfather, King Mpande, as a half-brother of the Zulu King Shaka, reigned from 1840 to 1872.Shaka's policies and conquests transformed a small clan into one of South Africa's most influential pre-colonial powers, extending over much of what is now KwaZulu-Natal.
The King of the Zulu Nation (IsiZulu: Isilo Samabandla Onke or Ingonyama yamaZulu [1]) or simply the Zulu King, is the paramount subnational traditional leader of the amaZulu ethnolinguistic group, the Monarch of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa (i.e., the ceremonial figurehead of the Government of KwaZulu-Natal) and the Lord of the Usuthu.
Cetshwayo kaMpande (/ k ɛ tʃ ˈ w aɪ. oʊ /; Zulu pronunciation: [ᵏǀétʃwajo kámpande]; c. 1826 – 8 February 1884) was the king [a] of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1884 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been transliterated as Cetawayo, Cetewayo, Cetywajo and Ketchwayo. Cetshwayo consistently ...
King Zulu kaMalandela, founder of the Zulu clan; King Shaka kaSenzangakhona, founder of the Zulu Nation; King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king; King Senzangakhona kaJama, Zulu king and father of Shaka; Mcwayizeni Zulu, Zulu prince; Mkabayi kaJama, Zulu princess and sister of Senzangakhona; Nandi, Mhlongo princess and mother of Shaka
Senzangakhona's ninth wife, Songiya kaNgotsha Hlabisa, bore Mpande, who became king when he overthrew Dingane in 1840. Mpande was the only son to bear him grandchildren. Mpande’s son, Cetshwayo kaMpande, was in some aspects the last great king of the Zulus before the British Empire invaded their territory.
Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu (c. 1795 –29 January 1840), commonly referred to as Dingane or Dingaan, was a Zulu prince who became king of the Zulu Kingdom in 1828, after assassinating his half-brother Shaka Zulu. [2]