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Soshangana Ka Gasa Zikode | |
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First Monarch of the Gaza Empire | |
Reign | 1825-1858 |
Successor | Mzila |
Born | Soshangana Nxumalo c. 1780 Present-day KwaNongoma, KwaZulu |
Died | 1858 (aged 77–78) Chaimite, Gaza Empire |
Soshangana Ka Gasa Zikode (c. 1780 – c. 1858), born Soshangana Nxumalo, was the Founder and the Monarch of the Gaza Empire, which at the height of its power stretched from the Limpopo river in southern Mozambique up to the Zambezi river in the north. Soshangana ruled over the Gaza state from 1825 until his death in 1858. Soshangana was also known by the name of Manukosi.[1]