Cetewayo

b. circa 1836; d. 1884

Son of the Zulu king Panda, whom he deposed in 1856. He defeated his brother Umbulazie, and then his right to the throne was acknowledged by Natal on the conditions that he dispersed his troops and changed what was perceived to be his barbarous mode of governing. It was owing to the annexation of the Transvaal that the British enforced these measures and, in 1879 after just defeating the British at Isandhlwana, he was defeated at Ulundi. Cetewayo was made a prisoner by Major Marter and lodged at Cape Town. He was brought to England in 1882, but through pressure of public opinion he was restored as king of the Zulus in 1883. But he was soon afterwards attacked by one of his old enemies, Usibepu, and had to seek asylum in the reserve on British territory. He died at Eshowe.

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