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18 de sept. de 2023 · Southern African nations have allowed themselves to be divided by colonial issues, instead of unifying, as the great King Mzilikazi ka Mashobane had intended...
Mzilikazi. Mzilikazi (ca. 1795-1868) was a southern African warrior leader who, after being driven out of his homeland, created the Ndebele, or Matabele, kingdom. Ayounger son of the Kumalo chieftain Mashobane, Mzilikazi spent his early life in the north of what was later to become the Zulu kingdom. During his young manhood, the Kumalo were ...
See Charles Pettman, South African Place Names (Queenstown, 1931), 89. 'Mantatee'—-like 'Matabele'—was a widely used name for the predatory bands of the period. When Moffat visited Mzilikazi in 1829, one of his guides was a Sotho refugee captured by Mzilikazi in 1823 (Missionary Scenes, 525; Matabele Jnls., I, 9).
The viability of Mzilikazi's developing polity is confirmed by his success in reconstructing his kingdom north of the Limpopo River. Without minimizing the traditional characterization of Mzilikazi as a warrior, a desolator and a tyrant, it is as a creative political administrator that his full stature can be appreciated.
Mzilikazi's War with the Voortrekkers: In the 1830s the Ndebele king made enemies of the Griqua and Rolong peoples through constant raids into their territories in the Orange and Caledon river valleys. With the arrival of the Voortrekkers in 1836, Mzilikazi’s enemies found in the Whites a useful ally. When it became clear that Mzilikazi and ...
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18 de dic. de 2020 · Mzilikazi, the first king of the Ndebele people, left an indelible mark on Ndebele toponymy in the city of Bulawayo. This study seeks to unpack this inerasable symbolic legacy.
