Zibhebhu kaMaphitha

[4] The defending Mandlakazi, 1,500 warriors assisted by five or six Boers under Johannes Wilhelm Colenbrander, set an ambush in Msebe Valley near Nongoma.

On the 22 July 1883, led by a small troop of mounted white mercenaries, Zibhebhu made a sudden descent upon Cetshwayo's oNdini kraal (near Ulundi) which was being rebuilt.

[7] Cetshwayo's senior military staff including general Ntshingwayo Khoza were chased down and killed as they fled after losing the battle.

[8] Though wounded, Cetshwayo managed to escape to the White Mfolozi river and then took refuge with Sigananda in the Nkandla forest.

[9] After repeated pleas from the Resident Commissioner, Sir Melmoth Osborn, the king moved to Eshowe,[10] where he died a few months later, possibly by poisoning.