A research project submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for B.A. Honours degree in the Department of History at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 1995. / AbaKwaMthethwa form a very important component of the
Zulu nation as we know it today. They were in fact
the vanguards in the implementation of the idea of a
confederation of smaller states (clans) under one
supreme ruler or a king who become their overlord.
The history of abaKwaMthethwa is so wide that one
would need volumes to do justice to it. This project
is only going to deal with their movement from around
uBombo mountains round about AD 1500 to 1818 when
king Dingiswyo was assassinated by Zwide, inkosi of
the Ndwandwe people.
This project will furthermore concentrate on the life
of Dingiswayo from the time he escaped death from his
father. The project also seeks to examine the
controversy surrounding Dingiswayo's formative
journey. It is intended that Dingiswayo's influence
and his contribution socially, politically, military
and economically to the upliftment of the Mthethwa
confederacy will be examined. Finally mention will
be made of the royal imizi, some principal imizi not
necessarily royal ones, as well as religious imizi
that are to be found at KwaMthethwa.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uzulu/oai:uzspace.unizulu.ac.za:10530/1193 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Mthethwa, Absalom Muziwethu. |
| Contributors | Cubbin, A.E. |
| Publisher | University of Zululand |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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