Ndlela KaSompisi - Mpande and After

Mpande and After

Ndlela's inaction against Mpande preserved the blood line of the Zulu monarchy. Mpande, the king after Dingane, was married to Ndlela's daughter Msukilethe. Mpande's son Cetshwayo in turn succeeded him. All subsequent Zulu monarchs are descended from Mpande.

Ndlela ka Sompisi understood that there were challengers to the Zulu hegemony. Some of these challengers did not of themselves seek to challenge to Zulu Kingdom but any introduction of a new and different culture to the frontier of human contact threatens the prevailing political and cultural hegemony. In such a clash the superior culture always emerges as the dominant culture. The Zulu Nation needed strong and pragmatic leadership at this particular point in time to preserve first their Kingdom and second their way of life (culture).