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"Mr Fynn is so well from previous experience
acquainted with the duties imposed upon him, 1
send him no instructions, but rely with
confidence on his discretion for he has
previously, both with Faku and the Zulu king,
ably done his duty. "55
Mpande also attempted to destroy the position of Phakade Ka
Macingwane Ka Lubhoko Mchunu. Phakade was an inkosi (chief) of the
Chunu in Natal from the late 1830's until his death in 1880.'·
He lived for a time in the Zulu kingdom after his father's (Macingwane)
chiefdom had been broken up by King Shaka. During the battle of
Maqongqo in 1840 Phakade seized many of Dingane's cattle and crossed
into the bush country of the Mpofana (Mooi) river. 51 The Mpofana river
rises in the foothills ofthe Drakensberg near Giant's Castle and flows into
the Thukela east of the present-day Tugela Ferry. Thus in 1848 Mpande
demanded the return of the cattle Phakade had seized from Dingane.
Phakade defied Mpande and the iziNyosi and the Dlambedlu amabutho
were dispatched to route him out. 58 The Chunu then settled in the country
about the confluence of the Thukela and Mpofana (Mooi) rivers. In the
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Fynn Papers, Vo!. 6, Smith to Mackinnon, 3 April 1848.
KC., Stuart Papers, File 61, Notebook 36, Evidence ofMbovu Ka Mshumayeli, 7
February 1904.
A.T. Bryant: Olden Times in Zululand, pp. 263, 271-2; C. Webb and 1. Wright (Eds):
lames Smart Archives ofrecorded oral evidence relating to the history ofthe Zulu and
neighbouring peoples, Vo!. 2, p. 55.
KC., Stuart Papers, File 58, Notebook 18. Evidence of Mini Ka Ndlovu. 9 April 1910.