Mthethwa Confederation

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The Mthethwa Confederation was a tribal association of over 30 Nguni tribes. It originated after 1700 on Delagoa Bay and the hinterland in what is now South Africa.

Around 1800, Dingiswayo ruled near the Tugela River . He made an alliance with the Tsonga in the north and began trading with the Portuguese in Mozambique . Around 1811, the Mthethwa Confederation under Dingiswayo formed the dominant role in a larger confederation with the Buthelezi tribe , another Zulu tribe under Senzangakhona, and other Zulu tribes. In 1817 Dingiswayo fell in the fight against the Ndwandwe .

Shaka , the eldest and illegitimate son of Senzangakhona, was an officer in the Mthethwa Army. In the Mfecane he transformed the Federation into the centralized Zulu Empire under his rule.

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