Nguni paramountcy under Dingiswayo that mentored Shaka before merging into the Zulu state.
The Mthethwa Paramountcy was destroyed in 1818 when Ndwandwe forces under Zwide killed King Dingiswayo at Ngome; the Mthethwa people then placed themselves under Shaka and were absorbed into the rising Zulu Kingdom.
Reassesses Dingiswayo's Mthethwa and the Mfecane debate.
Eldredge's Cambridge study of how Shaka's Zulu kingdom rose over the Mthethwa and Ndwandwe, the formative era behind the Anglo-Zulu conflict Morris narrates.