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Soshangane
Sign in to saveSoshangana KaZikode (), born Soshangana Nxumalo, was the founder and first monarch of the Gaza Empire, which, at its peak, spanned from the Limpopo River in southern Mozambique to the Zambezi River in the north. He ruled the Gaza state from 1825 until his death in 1858. Soshangana was also known by the name Manukosi.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Soshangana Ka Gasa Zikode
- Royalty.succession
- First Monarch of the Gaza Empire
- Royalty.reign
- 1825–1858
- Royalty.successor
- Mzila
- Royalty.birth_name
- Soshangana Nxumalo
- Royalty.birth_place
- Present-day KwaNongoma, KwaZulu
- Royalty.death_place
- Chaimite, Gaza Empire
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Early life
- The Emergence of Northern Nguni Kingdoms
- The Ndwandwe state
- The Nguni and Ndwandwe Chiefs
- King Zwide II
- The establishment of Gaza Kingdom
- Founding of the Gasa/Gaza Kingdom
- Soshangana’s policy of administration
- List of Soshangane's ancestors (Ndwandwe/Nxumalo lineage)
- References
- Further reading
Soshangana KaZikode (), born Soshangana Nxumalo, was the founder and first monarch of the Gaza Empire, which, at its peak, spanned from the Limpopo River in southern Mozambique to the Zambezi River in the north. He ruled the Gaza state from 1825 until his death in 1858. Soshangana was also known by the name Manukosi.
==Early life== Soshangana was born circa 1780 in present-day KwaNongoma, KwaZulu, to Zikode kaGasa, a chief of the junior branch () of the Nxumalo clan of the Ndwandwe people. His younger brother was Mhlabawadabuka. The Gasa family occupied the Mkhuze region near eTshanini Mountain (also known as Ghost Mountain), while the senior branch, under Zwide, resided in Magudu near the Pongola Valley. During this period, the Ndwandwe were gaining military power, and Zwide ascended to the Ndwandwe-Nxumalo throne after the death of his father, Langa KaXaba.