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existing code of laws with permanence in view l1 It has to be noted
that major colonial role players in this study are the Voortrekkers of
the Republic of Natalia and the British of Natal. The reason is that
the Voortrekkers enthroned Mpande with the designation: "Prince of
Emigrant Zulus" in October 1839, while in 1842 Mpande offered to
assist the British in taking over Natal from the Voortrekkers. The
term dynasty is used to refer to a family, or "House", which posses
hereditary right to reign over a particular territory or group of
territories. The adjective "dynastic" usually refers to the politics or
diplomacy practiced by the strong monarch of the sixteenth through
the eighteenth to the mid-19 th centuries.I'
In the phrases "Zulu chiefdom" and "Zulu kingdom", the term Zulu
refers to the genealogically heterogeneous groups of lineages which
recognised the rule of Senzangakhona, and later Shaka The
geographical limits of the "Zulu chiefdom" and the "Zulu kingdom"
were constantly shifting in the period analyzed in this study. Thus the
term KwaZu1u is used simply as a geographical designation for the
area between the Phongolo and Thukela rivers, while that of Natal is
c.L. Barnhart and R.K. Barnhart (Eds): The World Book Dictionarv, Vol. I, A - K,
p.725.
Ibid.. p.657