InDuna

Notable izinDuna in history

• Leander Starr Jameson, a British physician, was awarded the title of inDuna by the Matabele chief Lobengula after he had successfully treated the chief's gout.
• Mbopa was an inDuna serving under Shaka. He was one of the main conspirators in Shaka's assassination by his half-brothers Dingane and Umhlangana.
• Ndlela kaSompisi was a key general to Zulu Kings Shaka and Dingane, and also served as Dingane's inDuna – his chief advisor. Ndlela' repeatedly defied Dingane's request that he assassinate Mpande, half-brother of Shaka and Dingane. By this refusal he preserved the blood line of the Zulu monarchy, as all subsequent Zulu kings were from Mpande's blood line. He was strangled to death for his insubordination.
• Ntshingwayo kaMahole was the second in command of King Cetshwayo's Army. He was the commanding general who defeated the encamped British Army at the Battle of Isandlwana.
• Nathaniel Isaacs, a British adventurer, was awarded the title inDuna Incoola by Shaka and was granted large tracts of land.
• Tinos Rusere, nicknamed the "Rhodesian Induna", was an elected trade union representative of the Rhodesian miners in South Africa. In 1977 he became the trade union inDuna for all Southern African countries.
• Joseph Leabua Jonathan worked as a mine inDuna at Brakpan and eventually became the first Prime Minister of Lesotho.
• The Sudwala Caves were named after the Swazi inDuna Sudwala.

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• Ntabazinduna is the name of a hill north of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The name stems from the practice of throwing izinDuna who ran afoul of the king down it.
• Induna was the name of a racehorse that won the 1930 South Australian Derby.
• Canada's largest crocodile is called Induna. It resides at the Reptilia in Vaughan, Ontario.
• In 1899 Winston Churchill escaped from a prison in Pretoria and rode the Induna from Delagoa Bay to Durban.
• The SS Induna was the name of a British merchant steamboat that was sunk during WW2. It was built in 1925 by A. Stephen & Sons Ltd. of Glasgow and torpedoed by the German U-Boat Friedrich-Karl Marks en route from Reykjavík to Murmansk. Of the 66 people on board, 28 survived and were picked up by a Soviet minesweeper.
• The MV Induna Star was an 81-ton Australian steel ketch. It was captured by the Japanese during WW2 and the men aboard were incarcerated. Some of those men would later die in the infamous sinking of the prison ship, the Montevideo Maru by a US submarine.