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Lobengula
King of Matabeleland
(also encompassing Mashonaland)
ReignSeptember 1868 – January 1894
Coronation1869
PredecessorMzilikazi (father)
SuccessorLozikeyi
Bornc. 1835
Matabeleland
Diedc. 1894 (aged 48–49)
c. 70 km south of the Zambezi river in Matabeleland
SpouseLozikeyi (1st royal wife), Lomalongwe (2nd royal wife)
HouseKhumalo[1]
FatherMzilikazi Khumalo, first king of the Northern Ndebele people
MotherQueen Fulatha Tshabalala

Lobengula Khumalo (c. 1835 – c. 1894) was the second and last official king of the Northern Ndebele people (historically called Matabele in English). Both names in the Ndebele language mean "the men of the long shields", a reference to the Ndebele warriors' use of the Nguni shield.

  1. ^ Cobbing 1976, p. 1.

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