Zulu Kingdom: The wisdom of Solomon identifies discrepancies in Queen Mantfombi Zulu’s will as something that was forged
By Izazi Team
It is not easy to bust a scammer if you don’t understand his game and modus operandi. Only a person who knows how particular tsotsis operate can read through their con tricks because he understands how the game is played...
So it takes a tsotsi background to understand how tsotsis rob people. The same way it has taken law experts in South Arica to expose how corrupt the Judicial system is in South Africa.
So, in the same breath, it takes a person who has witnessed and documented how particular tsotsis abuse their political powers to rob legitimate Royal Princes of their own thrones to understand whether the Zulu throne was rigged or not when Prince Misuzulu was anointed King of the Zulus a day before yesterday.
As traditonal customs expert Professor Jabulani Maphalala revealed during the proceedings of the Nhlapho Commission into amaBomvu chieftainship dispute in 2015 on matters related to Prince Senzani Ngubane vs Prince Pano Ngubane; by Zulu tradition, it is from the third Queen’s house down to the wife who was the last to join the Royal family where the heir to the throne can be expected. The first (Indlunkulu) and second wife (Ikhohlwa) are illegible to produce a future King or Chief.
So at face value it seems like Prince Misuzulu is heir apparent to the throne of the Zulus. But here is a catch.
It is not always a wife taken from another royal family who is automatically ordained to give birth to a future King. In fact by Zulu tradition, King Zwelithini was supposed to have taken his first wife from the royal family.
It is the first wife that always comes from another royal house. The first wife, as we know it by tradition, who is often of royal blood, does not necessarily give birth to a heir apparent to the throne.
Her children can only act as regents if the heir apparent lost his father the King or Chief at a very young age. That’s why King Senzangakhona did not choose Shaka as heir apparent, although he was his first born son from his first wife Nandi; the Elangeni Royal Queen; but Sigujana, who was assassinated by Shaka the same way Prince Lethukuthula was assassinated in Johannesburg.
So if Queen Mantfombi is the third wife of King Zwelithini, this was a mistake. Whoever was the Prime Minister at the time this happened was supposed to have made sure that King Zwelithini’s first wife is a woman of Royal blood, per Zulu tradition, from another royal house.
We know King Zwelithini was very young when he made his first choice for a wife. In fact he became a King aged 23 in 1971. So all along he had depended on the wisdom of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi to guide him as his father’s Prime Minister (uNdunankulu) who had passed on while he was only 19 years old in 1968.
So this means the arrangement to have a Queen from Swaziland taken by King Zwelithini as a third wife (Iqadi), something that would make her now legible to give birth to the future King of the Zulus is obviously a foreign script that was written long before even King Zwelithini’s father, Cyprian Bhekuzlu even passed on in 1968. By we believe you know who; the imperialists and their stooge.
For whatever reason; there is a strong conspiracy to forever connect the Zulu Kingdom to the Swati Royal House, something we believe may have something to do with, perhaps, Illuminatism. Secondly; in the history of the Zulus; the future King has never been announced through a press conference as was the case with Prince Misuzulu.
King Zwelithini was supposed to have ordained him from childhood and the most senior members of the Zulu Royal family, per tradition, informed about this as to who the future King of the Zulus would be after he has passed on. The King can not do this, by tradition, through his lawyers. He must also register the future King to the local Magistrate in the presence of other Kings or Chiefs as witnesses to avoid unnecessary squabbles and throne theft after his demise.
From childhood the future King is whisked away from the care of his own mother to be brought up in a secret place either by trusted relatives or another royal house. Only very trusted members of the royal family are usually entrusted with this secret for the safety of a future King.
For King Zwelithini’s lawyers to claim in the Queens Will and Testament that Prince Misuzulu was anointed by his mother as heir apparent: “But if he rejects the throne, one of his brothers should be elected by his siblings through a secret vote” does not only sound like a script written from Windsor Castle in the Birmingham Palace in Britain, but also sounds pretty much outlandish, and with all due respect; outrageously crazy.
The following evidence proves that the Zulu Queen’s Will and Testament was not written by her:
If Queen Mantfombi really wrote this Will, the first logical step she would have taken was to approach his own son Misuzulu, to find out whether he would be up to the task or not, instead of making a bizarre appendix on her Will declaring that if he (Misuzulu) fails to take over the throne, a secret vote by his siblings should be a decider about who the future King is amongst his other brothers. This sounds like the handwriting of Queen Elizabeth, something from a person not steeped in the traditions of the Zulu monarch. A secret vote is Western tradition.
The Will does not make sense at all because the first thing Queen Mantfombi would have done would have been to summon the royal family first and make this significant pronouncement clear, as is the tradition with the ruling King after choosing his own successor. Not spring up such a huge surprise through her lawyers during a press conference as a Will and Testament!
The Zulu royal tradition compelled her to inform the family beforehand about such a crucial decision, failing which; her Will can not be validated by the Royal House as genuine if she has no witnesses to such a declaration. These are the consequences of trying to use Western traditions to resolve African disputes.
Secondly, it is weird that a King who is survived by lots of his own brothers and sisters, who, by tradition, as was the case when his grandfather (his father’s uncle) Prince Mshiyeni Zulu acted as his father King Cyprian’s regent in 1944 while he was younger; would in his own will appoint his wife Queen Mantfombi, instead of his siblings or uncles as regents.
Despite this; the King was spoiled for choice in his own grown up sons even to contemplate appointing the Queen in his most recent Will to be a regent if he passed on, “Until a King is appointed”, per Buthelezi’s claims. How did the King know he would die before he chose a heir to the throne after Lethukuthula’s demise to sign a Will that says Queen Mantfombi should act as a regent, and go on to appoint a future King?
We expected the King’s Will to be the one that makes this pronouncement on his potential successor since he passed on about a year after the heir apparent Lethukuthula was assassinated in Johannesburg. But instead, it is the Queen’s Will that made this significant pronouncement that has so many implications for the Zulu nation at large and Prince Misuzulu as a future King!
Something’s amiss here.
It is only the South African Constitution, not African tradition that can bestow such enormous powers to a King or Chief’s wife or daughter, because it came from London 95 percent written, just to undermine African tradition and culture. No wonder the Queen’s Will is now a contested terrain.
If, for example a daughter of a King or Chief inherits the throne by Roman Dutch law, this Queen daughter is supposed to get married to another family. Now what is going to happen to this throne she is a custodian of when she adopts her husband’s surname? Hence African tradition does not allow Queens to take the role of a King or Chief.
This is how African tradition is undermined by the Western laws. It has never been heard of in the history of the Zulu Kingdom for a King to appoint his wife the Queen as future King or regent as this strange Will and Testament claims King Zwelithini did.
If by now you still don’t get the picture that King Zwelithini, Prince Lethukuthula and Queen Mantfombi were assassinated by people who want to destroy the Zulu royal house and thereafter scatter the Zulu nation around, most probably because they fear this nation's unity and well documented legacy of defending the sovereignty of their own land against imperialism with their blood, you are still in the dark about who assassinated him although the murderers and their enablers are hiding in plain sight.
This is not how the future Royal King or Chief is elected by Zulu tradition; through Wills and Testaments written in documents from the executioners of the King’s estate. It is not also the duty of the Queen to elect a future King, no matter which Royal household she comes from.
Everything in the Will of the King or Chief should be endorsed by Royal House witnesses that were verbally informed beforehand about the contents of the Will by the ruler before he passed on. However, we have heard no one so far from the Zulu Royal House confirming the knowledge of what the King and the Queen’s Will claimed a day before yesterday. Instead Zulu royal Princes and Princesses say the family only knows of Prince Simakade as an officially anointed future King of the Zulu’s after Zwelithini.
Of course, it should be the royal family that knows better about the next Prince who is supposed to succeed the King who has passed on instead of a Prime Minister who is not even a member of the royal household but a distant relative. It is the duty of the King or Chief or the Royal household to decide on such matters, based on the wishes of the deceased King, not a Queen wife.
If you read isiZulu, follow this link and hear what the Prime Minister (uNdunankulu) of AmaBomvu said in the Nhlapho Commission in 2015 when some tribesmen asked him whether he had any idea who should be the next Chief after Chief Mahlokohloko departure. He told them this was not a decision of a Ndunankulu to make but a decision of an appointed Executive Committee of a Royal Household of amaBomvu to make.
As far as we know; the official heir apparent to the Zulu Kingdom after King Zwelithini was going to be the late Prince Lethukuthula Zulu, who was assassinated in Johannesburg last year.
The late Prince Lethukuthula Zulu
Now the question is: “Who is Prince Lethukuthula’s mother?” because the Royal House from which Lethukuthula belongs is where the future King of the Zulus must come from.
Now, was Prince Lethukuthula Queen Manftombi’s son from her own womb to be succeeded by Prince Misuzulu? If he was, then there is no question about who is King Zwelithini’s legitimate successor; it is Prince Misuzulu indeed. But even so, there is still a question mark here: “Is Prince Lethukuthula survived by a son?” If so, and he is still very young, Prince Misuzulu can only act as a regent on behalf of Lethukuthula’s son; not become an official King of the Zulus.
King Zwelithini’s wives: First wife Queen Sibongile Dlamini, second wife Queen Buhle Mathe, third wife (insert) Queen Mantfombi Dlamini, fourth wife Queen Thandi Ndlovu, fifth wife Queen Nompumelelo Mchiza and sixth wife Queen Zola Mafu, who was still a fiancee when this photo was taken
And if Prince Misuzulu and Prince Lethukuthula (the late) are born from different mothers (Royal Queens), Misuzulu is not a legitimate King of the Zulus but Lethukuthula’s surviving son or if there is none, his own brother from the same mother is. It doesn’t matter whether the wife of the King or Chief was of royal blood or not, what matters is which Royal Household was fingered by the King as a King or Chief progenitor.
The King may choose, if he so wishes, any non-royal born Queen as a future King’s Queen mother.
