After performing the ceremony of entering the kraal, Misuzulu was publicly announced as king by Zulu royal family elders.
Misuzulu’s coronation came despite an urgent interdict by Queen Sibongile Dlamini-Zulu’s daughters – Princesses Ntandoyenkosi Zulu and Ntombizosuthu Zulu-Duma.The princesses were seeking to halt King Misuzulu entering the kraal.
Queen Sibongile Dlamini, the late king’s first wife, has backed her son Prince Simakade Zulu as the rightful heir.Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, however, said Misuzulu “is already on the throne” and added that this cannot be reversed. Buthelezi said the entering the kraal ceremony was not to install the king. Instead, it’s an “important moment of expressing loyalty” to the king.Thousands of people gathered at the Zulu royal palace on Saturday for the coronation.Men and women in colourful traditional outfits assembled outside the marble palace on the hills of Nongoma, KwaZulu-Natal.
Lines of Zulu warriors, known as amaButho, and holding spears and shields, marched into the palace grounds. Women sang and danced.
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