Historical person
Dabulamanzi kaMpande
1839–1886
Dabulamanzi kaMpande was a son of King Mpande and a half-brother of Cetshwayo. He served as a Zulu commander during the Anglo-Zulu War and took part in the fighting around the opening battles of the campaign.
After the Zulu victory at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, Dabulamanzi led a large force across the border to attack the British post at Rorke’s Drift. The assault failed after repeated attacks against the fortified garrison. He later took part in further operations, including Gingindlovu.
Ian Knight’s The Sun Turned Black then shifts to Rorke’s Drift, where a small British garrison under John Chard and Gonville Bromhead resisted repeated attacks by a Zulu force led by Dabulamanzi kaMpande. Additional non-fiction treatment of Dabulamanzi kaMpande comes from Ian Knight’s Companion to the Anglo-Zulu War, Ian Knight’s Great Zulu Battles, 1838–1906, and Ian Knight’s Zulu Rising.
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Dabulamanzi kaMpande (4 books)
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
