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Zibhebhu kaMaphitha Zulu (c. 1841–1904) (also
called Usibepu/Ziphewu) was a Zulu chief.
After the
defeat of the Zulu
Kingdom by the British, he attempted...
- anti-royalist factions. Many of his
followers launched an
attack on
Prince Zibhebhu kaMaphitha of the
Mandlakazi collateral Zulu
royal family branch, who had...
- Cetshwayo's prin****l
enemy Zibhebhu kaMaphitha, who was
supported by Boer mercenaries. In 1883,
Dabulamanzi was
defeated by
Zibhebhu in the
Battle of Msebe...
- territories. However, they left one of Cetshwayo's relatives,
Usibepu (
Zibhebhu),
alone with his
lands intact. On 22 July 1883,
Usibepu attacked Cetshwayo's...
- kingdom.
Later that year, however,
Cetshwayo was
attacked at
Ulundi by
Zibhebhu, one of the 13 kinglets.
Cetshwayo was
wounded and fled.
Cetshwayo died...
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force under Zibhebhu,
defeated a
larger uSuthu force (who
represented Cetshwayo) in the
Msebe Valley near Nongoma. In
early March 1883,
Zibhebhu had seized...
- two Zulu factions—pro-Cetshwayo
uSuthus and
three rival chiefs led by
Zibhebhu—had
erupted into a
blood feud and
civil war. In 1883, the
British government...
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battles against the Zulu
chief Zibhebhu until their eventual victory on 5 June 1884, at the
Battle of
Ghost Mountain.
Zibhebhu, however, escaped, by climbing...
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Following which, the Zulu
Kingdom had a
civil war
whereby the
Mandlakazi under Zibhebhu rebelled against the
Usuthu faction of the monarch,
during the
reign of...
- "Dinuzulu's Volunteers", a
group of
Boers that had
supported Dinuzulu against Zibhebhu in 1884.
Botha later became a
member of the
parliament of
Transvaal in...
