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#TheMightyZulus Honouring General
Ntshingwayo kaMahole of the Khoza

Ntshingwayo Khoza (1809-1883) was the Commanding General of King Cetshwayo's Zulu Army during the first Anglo-Zulu War. He became known as Ntshingwayo kaMahole after being taken into foster care by Mahole of
the Khoza.

Ntshingwayo was given overall field command of the Zulu impi against the Centre Column of the first British invasion of Zululand in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Despite conflicting orders - to meet the British Army's Centre Column in open battle to kill them, but
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also a private command from King Cetshwayo "not to go to the English at once [to attack] , but to hold a conference first and send some chiefs to the English to ask why they were laying the country waste and killing Zulus", Ntshingwayo successfully outmanoeuvred
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