Mtetwa Empire

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The Mtetwa Empire was a kingdom that arose in the 1700s south of Delagoa Bay and inland in eastern southern Africa. It consisted of more than 30 Nguni tribes, and perhaps others.

The Mtetwa Empire was consolidated and extend under the rule of Dingiswayo who entered into an alliance with the Tsonga to the north in the early 1800s, and began trading with the Portuguese in Mozambique. About 1811, the Buthelezi and the other Zulu tribes, including that led by Senzangakona, were integrated into the Mtetwa Empire. Dingiswayo was killed in a battle with the Ndwandwe in 1817. The Mtetwa Empire was superceeded by the Zulu nation under Shaka, a former lieutenant in the Mtetwa army.

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Bryant, Alfred T. (1964) A History of the Zulu and Neighbouring Tribes C. Struik, Cape Town;
Morris, Donald R. (1965) The Washing of the Spears: a history of the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka and its fall in the Zulu War of 1879 Simon and Schuster, New York;