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This is a list of notable Zulu people Kings, Chiefs, princes and princesses. King Zulu kaMalandela, founder of the Zulu clan; King 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).
Name Meaning Date Raised Age Group Birth Years Ama-Wombe Single Clash: 1816: 1775-1785 U-Kangela Look-out: 1816: 1785-1790 Izin-Tenjana ezakala O-Ngoye [a]: 1818-1819
Pages in category "Zulu people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 255 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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 ...
Name Lifespan Reign start Reign end Notes Family Image; Shaka kaSenzangakhona: c. July 1787 – 22 September 1828 (aged 41) 1816: 22 September 1828: Half-brother of Sigujana kaSenzangakhona: Zulu: Dingane kaSenzangakhona: c. 1795 – 29 January 1840 (aged 44–45) November 1828: 29 January 1840: Half-brother of Shaka kaSenzangakhona: Zulu ...
The Zulu Kingdom (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo; Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire, 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 the south to the Pongola ...
Senzangakhona' sixth wife, Mpikase kaMlilela Ngobese, bore Dingane, who took over the Zulu kingdom after assassinating his half-brother Shaka in 1828 at present-day Stanger. The official name for this place is KwaDukuza. Senzangakhona's ninth wife, Songiya kaNgotsha Hlabisa, bore Mpande, who became king when he overthrew Dingane in 1840. Mpande ...