Ncapai (also spelt as
Ncapayi or Ncaphayi) was the king of the Bhaca people between 1826 until his death in 1845. He was the second son from the first wife of King
Madzikane
King Madzikane was the founder and a King of the amaBhaca Nation.
Family
King Madzikane's father was King Khalimesh. His firstborn was Crown Prince Sonyangwe followed by Prince Ncapai. However, because of the Mfecane wars, Prince Sonyangwe the ...
ka Zulu; the first born being Sonyangwe his elder brother. He resided at his father's royal residence in Mpoza, the great place facing Mganu mountains and also built another residence in the nearby Lutateni.
[(Soga, p. 443)] While trying to attack the
, due to the Maitland treaty, he fell off a cliff and died in a place called Nowalala, near
Ntabankulu
Ntabankulu, formerly Tabankulu, is a town in Alfred Nzo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Village some 30 km east-south-east of Mount Frere and 50 km south-south-west of Kokstad. Of Xhosa language, Xhos ...
in March 1846.
Faku kaNgqungqushe Faku may refer to:
*Faku County, in Liaoning, China
*King Faku, monarch of the Mpondo kingdom in Southern Africa
See also
* Fakku, an English-language hentai publisher
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ordered that he must be killed to save him from the pain and agony he had suffered for days after he had plunged beneath the cliff.
[(Hammond-Tooke, W.D, p. 34 - 37)] Ncapayi is said to have been a ruthless freebooter.
[(George McCall Theal,History of South Africa from 1873 to 1884 p. 37)]
See also
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List of Bhaca kings
Below are the traditional chiefs and kings of Zelemu and Wushe people who were later referred to as AmaBhaca
After the death of King Ncapai the kingdom split into two ruling lines:
External linksBhaca, AmaBhaca
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References
Ethnic groups in South Africa
19th-century monarchs in Africa
Monarchies of South Africa
1800s births
1846 deaths
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