• Oyengweni Dingiswayo (Zulu pronunciation: [diŋɡisʷaːjo]) (c. 1760 – 1817) (born Godongwana) was a Mthethwa king, well known for his mentorship over a young...
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    showing much prowess as a general in the army (impi) of Mthethwa king Dingiswayo in the Ndwandwe–Zulu War of 1817–1819. The Zulu impi is popularly identified...
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    Mthethwa Paramountcy was consolidated and extended under the rule of Dingiswayo. The chief entered into an alliance with the Tsonga to the north in the...
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    ibutho lempi (fighting unit/regiment), serving as a warrior under Inkosi Dingiswayo. King Shaka further refined the ibutho military system with the Mthethwa...
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  • Zulus were a small clan in the Mthethwa confederation which was ruled by Dingiswayo. Senzangakhona’s name is derived from the Zulu word meaning "he who acts...
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    under Dingiswayo, leader of the Mthethwa Paramountcy. When Senzangakona died, Dingiswayo helped Shaka become king of the Zulu. After Dingiswayo's death...
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    a warrior with the Mthethwa people. The Mthethwa paramount chieftain Dingiswayo helped Shaka become recognized as head of the Zulus after Senzangakhona...
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    King Zwide, the Ndwandwe nation destroyed the Mthethwa under their king Dingiswayo, and the power vacuum was filled by Shaka Zulu and the Zulu tribe. In...
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  • Ambitious in expanding Nxumalo supremacy, Zwide was a prominent rival to Dingiswayo, king of the Mthethwa and his famous general and protégé, Shaka kaSenzangakhona...
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  • Mthethwa kingdom, Dingiswayo, and his protégé Shaka Zulu. In the course of an attempted invasion of Zwide's territory, Dingiswayo was captured and put...
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    Shaka Zulu ascended to the throne with the support of his suzerain, King Dingiswayo. During the Mfecane, the Zulu Kingdom expanded significantly until the...
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  • Ntando Duma and Mduduzi Mabaso are expected to reprise their roles as King Dingiswayo, Queen Bhibhi and Gendeyana respectively. M-Net and Multichoice had officially...
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  • October 2024 Mthembu won Best Actor at the SAFTAs for his role as King Dingiswayo. He was born on 17 July 1994 in the township of KwaNdengezi, Durban, South...
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    Shaka, as the Zulu commander of the Mthethwa Empire and successor to Dingiswayo, united what was once a confederation of lordships into an imposing empire...
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    kaSenzangakhona (1787–1828), son of Senzangakhona, chief c. 1816 to 1828 After Dingiswayo's death at the hands of Zwide, king of the Ndwandwe, around 1818, Shaka...
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  • Sixolo – Bhebhe Daphney Hlomuka – Queen Ntombazi Simon Sabela [fr] – Dingiswayo. Nomsa Xaba – Sitayi the isangoma Khumbulani Cele (Henry's real-life son)...
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  • he had with the Methodist Church over his recruitment of John Wesley Dingiswayo, a black preacher whom had been expelled by the church, he could not successfully...
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    KwaZulu-Natal. The state was consolidated and extended under the rule of Dingiswayo who produced a disciplined and highly organised army for the first time...
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  • Shaka. Originally part of the early nineteenth century Mtetwa Empire of Dingiswayo, the Zulus united, expanded and founded an independent empire under King...
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  • ruled by Sobhuza I, while the third was the Mthethwa confederacy ruled by Dingiswayo. The three large states were ruled by paramount Chiefs who exacted tributes...
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    a warrior with the Mthethwa people. The Mthethwa paramount chieftain Dingiswayo helped Shaka become recognized as head of the Zulus after Senzangakhona...
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  • Kaptijn (1820–1852) Mthethwa Paramountcy – Jobe kaKhayi, Chief (?–1806) Dingiswayo, Chief (1806–1817) Zulu Kingdom (complete list) – Senzangakhona kaJama...
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    Constitutional Court Justices Healey Potani, Ivy Kamanga, Redson Kapindu, Dingiswayo Madise and Michael Tembo  Malawi 2023 President Volodomyr Zelenskyy  Ukraine...
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  • of Zimbabwe. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04268-9. Juma, Dingiswayo (October 16, 2019). "TRADITIONAL ZIMBABWEAN MBIRA CEREMONY CALLED "BIRA""...
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    President (1870–1871) Mthethwa Paramountcy – Jobe kaKhayi, Chief (?–1806) Dingiswayo, Chief (1806–1817) Nieuwe Republiek – Lucas Johannes Meijer, President...
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  • forced her to leave Qwabe to live amongst the Mthethwa people led by chief Dingiswayo ka Mohlatsane. Nandi was warmly welcomed by the Mthethwa. She found it...
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  • Bhambatha kaMancinza, Zulu chief Dabulamanzi kaMpande, Zulu commander Dingiswayo, Mthethwa chief, mentor of Shaka Zulu Albert Lutuli, chief of Zulu Christian...
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    Mthethwa in the late 1810s, ultimately defeating and slaying their leader Dingiswayo kaJobe. The Mthethwa promptly collapsed as its client polities reasserted...
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  • (Nb: a tree is called "isihlahla" in the Hlubi language. In 1818 King Dingiswayo of( AbaThethwa Kingdom) attacked and looted the AmaNgwane clan whom, to...
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  • King Zwide, the Ndwandwe nation destroyed the Mthethwa under their king Dingiswayo, and the power vacuum was filled by Shaka Zulu and the Zulu tribe. In...
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