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CETYWAYO ( ?-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 777 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CETYWAYO ( ?-1884)  , See also:king of the Zulus, was the eldest son of King Umpande or See also:Panda, and a 'See also:nephew of the two previous See also:kings, Dingaan and Chaka . See also:Cetywayo was a See also:young See also:man when in 1840 his See also:father was placed on the See also:throne by the aid of the See also:Natal Boers; and three years later Natal became a See also:British See also:colony . Cetywayo had inherited much of the military See also:talent of his See also:uncle Chaka, the organizer of the Zulu military See also:system, and chafed under his father's peaceful policy towards his British and See also:Boer neighbours . Suspecting Panda of favouring a younger son, Umbulazi, as his successor, Cetywayo made See also:war on his See also:brother, whom he defeated and slew at a See also:great See also:battle on the See also:banks of the See also:Tugela in See also:December 1856 . In the following See also:year, at an See also:assembly of the Zulus, it was resolved that Panda should retire from the mangement of the affairs of the nation, which were entrusted to Cetywayo, though the old See also:chief kept the See also:title of king . Cetywayo was, however, suspicious of the Natal See also:government, which afforded See also:protection to two of his See also:brothers . The feeling of distrust was removed in 1861 by a visit from Mr (afterwards See also:Sir) See also:Theophilus See also:Shepstone, secretary for native affairs in Natal, who induced Panda to proclaim Cetywayo publicly as the future king . Friendly relations were then maintained between the Zulus and Natal for many years . In 1872 Panda died, and Cetywayo was declared, king, See also:August 1893, in the presence of Shepstone, to whom he made See also:solemn promises to live at See also:peace with his neighbours and to govern his See also:people more humanely . These promises were not kept . Not only were See also:numbers of his own people wantonly slain (Cetywayo returning defiant messages to the See also:governor of Natal when remonstrated with), and the military system of Chaka and Dingaan strengthened, but he had a See also:feud with the See also:Transvaal Boers as to the See also:possession of the territory between the See also:Buffalo and Pongola See also:rivers, and encouraged the chief Sikukuni (Secocoeni) in his struggle against the Boers . This feud with the Boers was inherited by the British government on the See also:annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 .

Cetywayo's attitude became menacing; he allowed a See also:

minor chief to make raids into the Transvaal, and seized natives within the Natal border . Sir Bartle See also:Frere, who became high See also:commissioner of See also:South See also:Africa in See also:March 1877, found See also:evidence which convinced him that the Kaffir revolt of that year on the eastern border of Cape Colony was See also:part of a See also:design or See also:desire " for a See also:general and simultaneous rising of Kaffirdom against See also:white See also:civilization "; and the See also:Kaffirs undoubtedly looked to Cetywayo and the Zulus as the most redoubtable of their champions . In December 1878 Frere sent the Zulu king an See also:ultimatum, which, while awarding him the territory he claimed from the Boers, required him to make reparation for the outrages committed within the British See also:borders, to receive a British See also:resident, to disband his regiments, and to allow his young men to marry without the See also:necessity of having first " washed their spears." Cetywayo, who had found a defender in See also:Bishop See also:Colenso, vouchsafed no reply, and See also:Lord See also:Chelmsford entered See also:Zululand, at the See also:head of 13,000 troops, on the 11th of See also:January 1879 to enforce the British demands . The disaster of See also:Isandhlwana and the See also:defence of Rorke's See also:Drift signalized the commencement of the See also:campaign, but on the 4th of See also:July the Zulus were utterly routed at See also:Ulundi . Cetywayo became a fugitive, but was captured on the 28th of August . His See also:kingdom was divided among thirteen chiefs and he himself taken to Cape See also:Town, whence he was brought to See also:London in August 1882 . He remained in See also:England less than a See also:month, during which See also:time the government (the second See also:Gladstone See also:administration) announced that they had decided upon his restoration . To his great disappointment, however, restoration proved to refer only to a portion of his old kingdom . Even there one of his kinsmen and chief enemies, Usibepu, was allowed to retain the territory allotted to him in 1879 . Cetywayo was reinstalled on the 29th of January 1883 by Shepstone, but his enemies, headed by Usibepu, attacked him within a See also:week, and after a struggle of nearly a year's duration he was defeated and his See also:kraal destroyed . He then took See also:refuge in the Native Reserve, where he died on the 8th of See also:February 1884 . For a See also:quarter of a See also:century he had been the most conspicuous native figure in South Africa, and had been the cause of See also:long and See also:bitter See also:political controversy in Great See also:Britain .

His son DINIzuLu afterwards attempted to become king, was exiled (1889) to St See also:

Helena, permitted to return (1898), and granted the position of a chief . In December 1907 Dinizulu was imprisoned at Maritzburg, being suspected of complicity in the revolt which had occurred in Zululand the previous year . He was kept many months waiting trial, there being considerable See also:friction between the colonial government and the British government over the incident . He was eventually brought to trial in See also:November 1908 before a See also:special See also:court, his defence (to the cost of which the British government contributed £2000) being undertaken by Mr W . P . Schreiner . The trial was not concluded until March 1909 . The See also:charge of high See also:treason was not proved, but Dinizulu was convicted of harbouring rebels and was sentenced to four years' imprisonment . The See also:Life of Sir Bartle Frere, by See also:John See also:Martineau, vol. ii. chaps . 18 to 21, contains much See also:information concerning Cetywayo .

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