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He became King on the death on of his father, King Cyprian Bhekuzulu, in 1968 aged 20 years. Prince Israel Mcwayizeni acted as the regent from 1968 to 1971 while the King took refuge in the then Transkai province of South Africa for three years to avoid assassination.[by whom?] After his 21st birthday and his first marriage, Zwelithini was installed as the eighth monarch of the Zulus at a traditional ceremony at Nongoma on 3 December 1971, attended by 20,000 people. Zwelithini died on 12 March 2021, aged 72, after reportedly being admitted to hospital for diabetes-related illness.[2][3][4] During preparations for his funeral, the king's traditional prime minister, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, announced that he had died of COVID-19.[5][6]
In September 2012, King Goodwill Zwelithini asked the KwaZulu-Natal government for R18 million to build new property, including a new R6 million palace for his youngest wife Queen Mafu and upgrades to Queen MaMchiza's palace.[15][16] The King's royal household department CFO, Mduduzi Mthembu, told a parliamentary committee that the money was needed. The department also requested $1.4 million USD for improvements to Queen MaMchiza's palace.[17] The government had already budgeted around $6.9 million USD for the royal family during 2012, not for the first time prompting accusations of lavish spending; in 2008, opposition parties criticised King Zwelithini's wives for spending around $24,000 USD on linen, designer clothes, and expensive holidays.[17]
c1900. Ephemera. Carte de visite, trimmed to approx. 5 by 4 inches, showing five African women standing before a reed fence. Numbered 156. Handwritten caption on verso, "The wives and daughters of a Zulu." The Zulu remain the largest South African ethnic group, with its people living mostly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, though small numbers also live in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique. Very good condition. Item #16853
Photoglob Co, P., Wilson, G. W., photographer. (ca. 1890) A Zulu and his wives, South Africa. South Africa, ca. 1890. [Zürich: Photoglob Company, to 1910] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
While participants were reluctant to acknowledge the influence of culture in their fertility decisions, their responses suggested that culture played an important role in explaining why family planning did not work. Study participants argued that women had to bear children to prove their worth. Not only is giving birth important, but bearing sons increases the value and worth of a woman in Zulu culture. When the first child is a girl, a woman is unlikely to go on contraceptives as societal pressure dictates that she tries again until she bears a son. This means that women can end up with more children than they planned for. Where women did not bear sons, their husbands were likely to marry second wives in an attempt to have sons who are considered to be heirs and bearers of the clan name.
He left behind six wives and at least 28 descendants: one of the wives of the late Zulu king launched the battle in a South African court on Tuesday in the succession war for the throne.
After 50 years of rule, King Goodwill Zwelithini died in March aged 72. Named regent in his will, his third wife and favourite, Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini, appointed her son, Misuzulu Zulu, 47, to succeed the throne.
Royal women defended the Zulu monarchy during times of assault and civil war. For example, Novimbi okaMsweli advised her son Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo in the wake of the Zulu civil war that followed the British annexation of Zululand. While he was exiled to Saint Helena, she kept him updated and cooperated with the prime minister of the Zulu, Mankulumana kaSophunga.
These royal women played important roles in succession disputes. Christina Sibiya, the wife of King Solomon kaDinuzulu, provided her son Cyprian Nyangayezinzwe Bhekuzulu kaSolomon with the impetus to claim the throne. She also testified in 1945 to the government commission that found her son to be the rightful heir.
In the UK, to be married to more than one person at a time is illegal. But the Zulu ethnic group, of which Mr Zuma is part, practises polygamy by tradition. This clash in attitudes dates from the 19th Century, when white missionaries preached that conversion to Christianity entailed divorcing one's "extra" wives, says Ndela Ntshangase, a lecturer in the school of Zulu studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
In Zulu culture, "every family member must work for the betterment of the family". And a way to improve a family's status and income is to add extra members, he says, and adds that additional wives can be particularly advantageous in an agricultural society.
"On paper there is total emancipation of women, but traditional forms of polygamy are not allowing for that," he says. Even in so-called equal polygamous marriages, there's innate gender imbalance between the husband and his wives.
Polygamy is the future not the past. Women get to share not only one man but also a sisterhood with the other wives. One man is more than enough. The women also get to share childcare and the children grow up in a larger social group where there is less likelihood of child abuse and neglect. I can see lots of advantages.
It is a debate that is set to continue, especially in a country with strong Christian bias. The "wrong" thing, as far as the law and bigamy is concerned, is that a person can be prosecuted and sent to jail for having more than one wife in the UK - even if the wives live together and are completely happy with their situation and lifestyle. However, a married man can have many affairs with multiple women without his spouses' knowledge and, in the eyes of the law, he is doing nothing legally "wrong".
What concerns the South African taxpayer is not so much that the president is polygamous - but who is paying for the 4 wives (one divorced) and 20 children? Given that the president has a track record of unfortunate financial mismanagement, it's doubtful that he can afford his lifestyle on his salary. Where is the extra money coming from?
It is an interesting point that the missionaries in the 19th century were encouraging people already in polygamous marriages to divorce their 'extra' wives ... what happened to two "wrongs" don't make a right?
But what about the women? Are they only allowed one husband? Surely, if women are only allowed one husband but men are allowed several wives each, you would need more than a "slight skew" in the population male : female ratio for there not to be very large numbers of unattached men.
Few personalities in the history of Natal and Zululand have aroused as much controversy as the legendary "hie chiefs" John Dunn. He is mostly remembered for his taking of nearly fifty Zulu wives and the siring of over one hundred children.
But, this fact alone does not make Dunn singularly unusual, for many white men took wives and concubines from the indigenous black populace. Rather, John Dunn's exceptional place in history rests on his prominent role in events hat were crucially important in the shaping of modern South Africa. In a sense, John Dunn's history is "living' history of his numerous descendants have formed a distinct and vital community in southern Zululand
The white traders readily adapted to African social and cultural norms. The scarcity of white women prompted nearly two thirds of the white traders to take black wives and concubines., The British traders also found it convenient to become petty chieftains and govern Port Natal. When Natal became a British colony in 1843 European culture and social customs replaced the way of the African. The rule of hunter trader chiefs was replaced by a Brioche Colonial Administration. Natal's African population was territorially politically and socially segregated white society.
Cetshwayo's attachment to Dunn came to be based on more than mere expedience and the two became close friends and confidants. Dunn readily accepted Cetshwayo's invitation to settle permanently in Zululand. Indeed, Cetshwayo had offered Dunn an ideal situation. He gave Dunn occupational rights to lands along the southern Zululand coast from Ngoya in the north to the Lower Tugela in the South. Status in the Zulu kingdom was measured by the number of wives and cattle in an individual's possession
John Dunn is unique in South Africa's historical annals for he founded a distinct new community. The product of Dunn's union with forty-nine wives was an estimated one hundred and fifteen children the overwhelming majority of whom were classified as "colored'. Yet,John Dunn unknowingly bequeathed a bitter sweet legacy to his descendants. The distribution of John Dunn's property was immediately cloned with dispute. The chiefs beneficiaries of John Dunn's fortune did not have long to enjoy it before natural calamities of catastrophic magnitude erased the accumulated wealth of half a century in less than two years. The Dunn's were reduced from a position of comparative to one of poverty and ever destitution Dominic Dun said of this calamity that what had been a land of plenty became a land of desolation and moaning of bitter complaints of lean stomachs and downright starvation. From 1898 onwards many of John Dunn's descendants were forced to leave Dunn's land and seek employment in Natal, the Transvaal and the Cape. The Diaspora has continued to the present day of Dunn's descendants having settled as far afield as the United Kingdom, Canada Australia and the United States of America. In the 1950s Gladstone Dunn a grandson of John Dunn, became the spokesman for the Dunn community. He and his relatives had of wrestle with the interrelated problems of insecurity of land tenure. Gladstone Dunn's energies were devoted to promoting sugar cane production. This would make the Dunn community more prosperous and check he further out migration of Dunns from Zululand.
A new Zulu king was named in South Africa amid scenes of chaos after members of the royal family questioned Prince Misuzulu Zulu's claim to the title following his father's death, and bodyguards suddenly whisked him away from the public announcement at a palace.
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