Historical studies slides for grade 10 educators.

1. POLITICAL REVOLUTION
BETWEEN 1820 - 1835
CONSOLIDATION OF THE ZULU UNDER DINGANE.

2. BIOGRAPHY
• DINGANE KASENZANGAKHONA ZULU.
• 1795–1840.
• WAS A ZULU CHIEF WHO BECAME KING OF THE ZULU
KINGDOM IN 1828.
• HE SET UP HIS ROYAL CAPITAL UMGUNGUNDLOVU, AND
ONE OF NUMEROUS MILITARY ENCAMPMENTS.

3. RISE TO POWER
• DINGANE CAME TO POWER IN 1828 AFTER ASSASSINATING HIS
HALF-BROTHER SHAKA
• WITH HIM WAS; THE HELP OF ANOTHER BROTHER, UMHLANGANA, ,
AS WELL AS MBOPA, SHAKA'S ADVISOR.
• THEY WERE TRADITIONALLY SAID TO HAVE KILLED SHAKA
BECAUSE OF HIS INCREASE IN BRUTAL BEHAVIOUR AFTER THE
DEATH OF HIS MOTHER NANDI.
• THE ASSASSINATION TOOK PLACE AT PRESENT-DAY STANGER.

4. CHALLENGES OF EUROPEAN ADVANCE
• MODERN HISTORIAN HAVE ASSESSED DINGANE AS THE KING RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE DECLINE OF THE ZULU MILITARY SUPERIORITY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
• HE WAS A POPULAR LEADER AMONG THE PEOPLE AND CAME INTO POWER ATA
CHALLENGING TIME.
• THE FALL OF THE ZULU KINGDOM TO THE EUROPEAN COLONISTS MIGHT HAVE
OCCURRED EVEN UNDER SHAKA'S RULE.
• NUMEROUS ETHNIC EUROPEAN COLONISTS WERE ENTERING THE AREA FROM
THE CAPE COLONY.
• THEY POSSESSED GUNS AND WEAPONRY FAR SUPERIOR TO THE ZULU SPEAR.

5. OVERTHROW AND DEATH
• IN JANUARY 1840, PRETORIUS AND A FORCE OF 400 BOERS
HELPED MPANDE IN HIS REVOLT AGAINST DINGANE.
• RESULTED IN THE LATTER'S OVERTHROW AND DEATH.
• AT THE BATTLE OF MAQONGQO MANY OF DINGANE'S OWN MEN
DESERTED TO MPANDE'S ARMY.
• A GROUP OF NYAWO AND SWAZI ASSASSINATED HIM
IN HLATIKHULU FOREST