Mzilikazi
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Mzilikazi KaMashobane, also known as Mzilikazi Khumalo and recorded in some colonial sources as Moselekatse, meaning "The Great Road", was a Southern African king and founder of the Northern Ndebele,
Mzilikazi, as portrayed by William Cornwallis Harris, c. 1836
Mzilikazi's memorial
Mzilikazi's grave
Lobengula
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Lobengula Khumalo was the second and last official king of Mthwakazi. Both names in the Ndebele language mean "the men of the long shields", a reference to the Ndebele warriors' use of the Nguni shiel
Mzilikazi
…of Mzilikazi, born to one of his wives, whose identity is recorded differently across oral and written traditions. Mzilikazi was succeeded by his son Lobengula. The territorial and political gains Mzilikazi had accrued over his life were short lived, however, after gold was discovered by the Europeans one year…
Lobengula image
King Lobengula and one of his wives, 1893
Life in Bulawayo, c. 1900
Lobengula's youngest daughter, c. 1880–1910