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[citation needed] The power of a chieftain often depended on how well he could hold his clan together. [citation needed] From about 1800, the rise of the Zulu clan of the Nguni, and the consequent Mfecane that accompanied the expansion of the Zulus under Shaka helped to drive a process of alliance and consolidation among many of the smaller clans.
The Nguni-speaking clan of the southern Bantus, which evolved into the Zulu people, takes its name from the third of its recorded chiefs. [2] Malandela, believed to have reigned in the early part of the sixteenth century, is the patrilineal ancestor of the present king, whose lineage comes down from him through Chief Senzangakhona to the latter ...
Their royal lineage can be traced to a chief named Dlamini I; this is still the royal clan name. About three-quarters of the clan groups are Nguni; the remainder are Sotho, Tsonga, others North East African and San descendants. These groups have intermarried freely.
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
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 name).
Mnguni's name derives from the word Nguni, the name for the major ethnicity in South Africa. It now includes the Zulus, Xhosas, Ndebeles and Swazis among others. Most of the different Nguni-tribes trace their lineage to Mnguni, the King of the unified (pre-Zulu, pre-Xhosa, pre-Ndebele, pre-Swazi etc.) Nguni nation in South Africa.
Ngidi people are a Southern African Bantu Nguni group who trace their ancestors through central Africa. They were the head house Chief leaders of AmaLala nation. They are settled at the forests of Nkandla stretching to the mountains of Hlobane and the morden day Mlalazi municipality and Mzinyathi municipality on the upper Tukela river ruled by their last King MNguni omnyama kaKhuzwayo kaHlomuka.
The rise of the Zulu nation to dominance in southern Africa in the early nineteenth century (~1815–~1840) disrupted many traditional alliances. Around 1817, the Mthethwa alliance, which included the Zulu clan, came into conflict with the Ndwandwe alliance, which included the Nguni people from what is now kwaZulu-Natal.