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The first of these events has to do with the origin of the Ndebele state: Why did Mzilikazi Khumalo leave Shaka Zulu in the early-1820s? The second event is the succession crisis within this state: What happened with Mzilikazi's son Nkulumane, who was elected king about 1840? The third event is related to the end of the Ndebele state: What happened to Mzilikazi's successor Lobengula in 1893? I wil. [...] The first is Kuper, Hughes, and van Velsen's The Shona and the Ndebele in Southern Rhodesia (1954), the second is Harold Child's The History of the amaNdebele (1969), and the third is Kent Rasmussen's Migrant Kingdom: Mzilikazi's Ndebele in South Africa (1978). [...] The fate of king Lobengula and the end of the state The third event of importance for Ndebele-speakers, western scholars, and Zimbabwean national writers alike, is related to the end of the Ndebele state: What happened to Mzilikazi's successor Lobengula in 1893? Mzilikazi died in 1868, and his son Lobengula became king in 1870. [...] In the same way as the colonial state had an interest in the death of Lobengula and the end of the Ndebele state, the Zimbabwean state has no interest in making Lobengula a hero or in resurrecting the Ndebele state or nation. [...] The different accounts, of the origin of the Ndebele state, of the succession crisis within this state, and of the end of the state, exemplify this.