List of Zulu kings - Definition and Overview

This List of Zulu kings gives a list of Zulu chieftains and kings from their earliest known history up to the current monarch:

• Malandela kaLuzumana
• Ntombhela kaMalandela, son of Malandela.
• Zulu kaNtombhela, son of Ntombhela, founder and chief of the Zulu clan from ca. 1709.
• Ghumede kaZulu, son of Zulu, chief of the Zulu clan.
• Phunga kaGhumede (d. 1727), son of Ghumede, chief of the Zulu clan up to 1727.
• Mageba kaPhunga (d. 1745), son of Phunga, chief of the Zulu clan from 1727 to 1745.
• Ndaba kaMageba (d. 1763), son of Mageba, chief of the Zulu clan from 1745 to 1763.
• Jama kaNdaba (d. 1781), son of Ndaba, chief of the Zulu clan from 1763 to 1781.
• Senzangakona kaJama (ca. 1762-1816), son of Jama, chief of the Zulu clan from 1781 to 1816.
• Shaka kaSenzangakhona (ca. 1787-1828), son of Senzangakona, king from 1816 to 1828.
• Dingane kaSenzangakhona (ca. 1795-1840), son of Senzangakona and half-brother of Shaka, king from 1828 to 1840.
• Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798-1872), son of Senzangakona and half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, king from 1840 to 1872.
• Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826 - February 1884), son of Mpande, king from 1872 to 1884.
• Dinizulu kaCetshwayo (1868-1913), son of Cetshwayo kaMpande, king from 1884 to 1913.
• Solomon kaDinizulu (1891-1933), son of Dinizulu kaCetshwayo, king from 1913 to 1933.
• Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon (4 August 1924-17 September 1968), son of Solomon kaDinizulu, king from 1933 to 1968.
• Goodwill Zwelethini kaBhekuzulu (b. 14 July 1948), son of Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon, king since 1968.

Here are a few other Kings, or minor notables, around Zululand :-

• King Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa
• King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
• John Dunn - one of 13 'kinglets' after the Anglo-Zulu War - Scottish ancestry
• King Zwide of the Ndwandwe