The Fascinating Story of the Zulu Warrior & Shaka kaSenzangakhona
Madle'thule's hunger was changing the lives of the people who were living in a land that's well known today as KwaZulu Natal. Before this great hunger people were just living their lives, one tribe was long distanced from the other tribes.
During this great hunger a sad thing begun to happen amongst the Zulu people. Tribes begun to attack each other confisticating each others cows, cattle and food. That is the exact time when the tribes had more passion to conqueror the other tribes and take them under themselves to have more power and people. Two people in the Zulu Kingdom became famous by doing this, Dingiswayo who belong to the tribe of Mthethwa and Zwide from the Ndwandwe tribe. Even the Zulu tribe of Sonkana was under Dingiswayo's power.
Shaka Zulu grew up amongst the warriors of Mthethwa where he learned the clever & unbelievable tactics of leading a war.
For Shaka to be in the Mthethwa tribe as a young boy it was because he was running away from his mothers people, Nandi from the eLangeni. In eLangeni Shaka stayed with his grandmother Mfunda. When he arrived kwaMthethwa he was welcomed by Ngomane kaMqomboli from Mdletshe, the deputy chief of Dingiswayo. After learning that Shaka is of kingship, he took him to Dingiswayo who made him his servant.
Shaka Zulu took to fame when he attacked a tribe that was most feared by the Mthethwa tribe, from then on he became the chief of warriors.
Zwide succeeded in killing Dingiswayo in 1818, and Shaka Zulu's brother uSigujana became king.
After Shaka Zulu discovered that Senzangakhona was dead "usekhotheme" (zulu language), he went back to his nation, killed Sigujana, Mudli and Zivalele and took over as King of the Zulu people. Because Dingiswayo was dead, Shaka also took over the Mthethwa tribe.
King of the Zulu Nation
When Shaka became king, he first attacked uMacingwane from Mchunu and followed with Phungashe from the Buthelezi's side. He attacked these zulu tribes because they were torturing the Zulu nation during the times of Jama and Senzangakhona.
In no time Shaka Zulu conquered Zwide, who was the only one left that can stand against Shaka. In this way Shaka became the only king of all the available tribes in that area. And he then called them ZULU! (zulu nation)
After the defeat of Zwide some of the chiefs and people who were under Zwide's power were scattered all over in 1820.
1820 Settlers
It was during the year of 1823 that the white people arrived in Mthaniya, it was namely: Henry Francis Farewell and Saunders King. The whites were attracted by the harbour entrance in kwaZulu.
The white people filled the land of kwaZulu , after they found that it was going to be easy to conquer the Zulu people by getting more and more white people to fill KwaZulu Natal. These white people were called the 1820 Settlers, they arrived in the Cape.
Shaka Zulu was killed by his brothers Dingane, Mhlangana, Gqugqu and Mbopha. They claim they were encouraged by Mkabayi kaJama.
Some of the information was provided by my.cybersoup.com/vusezakithi/zulu.Zulu