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Dingaan (1795–c. 1843)

Zulu chief who obtained the throne in 1828 by murdering his predecessor, Shaka, and became notorious for his cruelty. In warfare with the Boer immigrants into Natal he was defeated on 16 December 1838 – ‘Dingaan's Day’. He escaped to Swaziland, where he was deposed by his brother Mpande and subsequently assassinated.



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I killed him with Dingaan and Umhlangana the princes; but the wound was mine that his life crept out of, and but for me he would never have been slain.
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