Political Life
Around the time Zwide became King, the Ndwandwe were growing in military power. Ambitious in expanding Ndwandwe supremacy, Zwide was a prominent rival chieftain to King Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa and his famous general and protégé, Prince Shaka, heir to the Zulu throne.
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