trekkers a decade later, but it was subject to endemic factionalism.
In
customary Nguni fashion, rival members of the royal family built up seg-
ments that competed for power and wealth-a
process that led to civil war
in 1856. The authority of the monarchy was also challenged by interests
associated with representatives
of pre-Shakan
chiefdoms. By that time,
furthermore,
Afrikaner farmers were infiltrating Zulu territory from the
Transvaal republic in the north; so were British traders from the colony of
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