Mthethwa Paramountcy

The Mthethwa confederation was a tribal group of about 30 Nguni tribes. It was built after 1700 to Delagoa Bay and the hinterland in South Africa today.

In 1800, reigned Dingiswayo near the Tugela River. He formed an alliance with the Tsonga in the north and began trading with the Portuguese in Mozambique. To 1811, the Mthethwa confederation formed under Dingiswayo the dominant role in a larger confederation with the strain of Buthelezi, another Zulu tribe under Senzangakona and other Zulu tribes. 1817 Dingiswayo fell in battle against the Ndwandwe.

Shaka, the oldest and illegitimate son of Senzangakona, was an officer in the Mthethwa army. In the Mfecane he transformed the Federation in the centralized Zulu kingdom under his rule.

Swell

• Alfred T. Bryant: A History of the Zulu and Neighbouring Tribes. C. Struik, Cape Town 1964. OCLC 3182218
• Donald R. Morris: The Washing of the Spears: The Rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka nation and its case in the Zulu War of 1879, Simon and Schuster, New York 1965 OCLC 408488 (Reprint: .. . Da Capo Press, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0-306-80866-8 )

• Historical State in Africa
• History ( South Africa)
• History ( Mozambique)
• Zulu