where he was killed by the Swazi.
Mpande then acquired control of the Zulu kingdom in the area north of the
Tugela River.
Following up their victory, most of the emigrants
settled in Natal,
spreading out wherever good pastures and perennial water were found. By
1842, a community of some six thousand men, women, and children had
laid claim to almost all of the fertile land between the Tugela and the
Mzimkhulu.
A committee
drew up a constitution,
creating a Volksraad
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