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The '''uSuthu''' were the royalist faction in Zululand, more specifically they were the followers of His Royal Highness King [[Cetshwayo]] kaMpande. The young Zulu warriors who clustered around prince Cetshwayo in 1856 during the Second Zulu Civil War formed the core of the uSuthu.[{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Cetshwayo |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica }}] Their name came from the Zulu war cry ''usuthu''.[{{Cite web|title=Glossary of Terms |publisher=Anglo Zulu War Historical Society |url=https://www.anglozuluwar.com/about-the-anglo-zulu-war-of-1879/glossary-of-terms/ }}] |
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The '''uSuthu''' were the royalist faction in Zululand, more specifically they were the followers of His Royal Highness King [[Cetshwayo]] kaMpande. The young Zulu warriors who clustered around prince Cetshwayo in 1856 during the Second Zulu Civil War formed the core of the uSuthu.[{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Cetshwayo |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica }}] Their name came from the Zulu war cry ''usuthu''.[{{Cite web|title=Glossary of Terms |publisher=Anglo Zulu War Historical Society |url=https://www.anglozuluwar.com/about-the-anglo-zulu-war-of-1879/glossary-of-terms/ }}] |
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After Cetshwayo was deposed by the British in the [[Anglo-Zulu War]] of 1879, the First Partition of Zululand resulted in thirteen separate chiefdoms, none of which were ruled by Cetshwayo, the former and subsequent Zulu king. The uSuthu resented this "divide and conquer" strategy of the British, and sought to re-establish the monarchy, resulting in the Third Zulu Civil War of 1883–1884 ([[Mandlakazi]]-uSuthu Conflict),[{{Cite dictionary|last=Laband |first=John |year=2009 |title=Introduction |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Pnf1BC_XORoC&pg=PR52 lii] |isbn=978-0-8108-6078-0}}][{{Cite journal|last=Laband |first=John |year=1994 |title=British Boundary Adjustments and the uSuthu-Mandlakazi Conflict in Zululand, 1879–1904 |journal=South African Historical Journal |volume=30 |pages=33–60 |doi=10.1080/02582479408671781 }}] and the uSuthu Rebellion of 1888.[{{Cite dictionary|last=Laband |first=John |year=2009 |title=uSuthu Rebellion |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Pnf1BC_XORoC&pg=PA275&lpg=PA275 275] |isbn=978-0-8108-6078-0}}] |
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After King Cetshwayo kaMpande was deposed by the British in the [[Anglo-Zulu War]] of 1879, the First Partition of Zululand resulted in thirteen separate chiefdoms, none of which were ruled by King Cetshwayo kaMpande, the former and subsequent Zulu king. The uSuthu resented this "divide and conquer" strategy of the British, and sought to re-establish the monarchy, resulting in the Third Zulu Civil War of 1883–1884 ([[Mandlakazi]]-uSuthu Conflict),[{{Cite dictionary|last=Laband |first=John |year=2009 |title=Introduction |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Pnf1BC_XORoC&pg=PR52 lii] |isbn=978-0-8108-6078-0}}][{{Cite journal|last=Laband |first=John |year=1994 |title=British Boundary Adjustments and the uSuthu-Mandlakazi Conflict in Zululand, 1879–1904 |journal=South African Historical Journal |volume=30 |pages=33–60 |doi=10.1080/02582479408671781 }}] and the uSuthu Rebellion of 1888.[{{Cite dictionary|last=Laband |first=John |year=2009 |title=uSuthu Rebellion |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Pnf1BC_XORoC&pg=PA275&lpg=PA275 275] |isbn=978-0-8108-6078-0}}] |
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The British sought to dismantle the uSuthu chieftaincy.[{{Cite journal |last=Nxumalo |first=Siyabonga |date=2026 |title=British Political Hegemony and Imperialism: Crushing of the Usuthu and the Onkweni Sections of the Zulu Royal Family, 1880s–1913 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/british-political-hegemony-and-imperialism-crushing-of-the-usuthu-and-the-onkweni-sections-of-the-zulu-royal-family-1880s1913/07EC250864BDC9DDC04451959454E07B |journal=The Journal of African History |language=en |volume=67 |pages=e8 |doi=10.1017/S002185372510073X |issn=0021-8537|doi-access=free }}] |
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The British sought to dismantle the uSuthu chieftaincy.[{{Cite journal |last=Nxumalo |first=Siyabonga |date=2026 |title=British Political Hegemony and Imperialism: Crushing of the Usuthu and the Onkweni Sections of the Zulu Royal Family, 1880s–1913 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/british-political-hegemony-and-imperialism-crushing-of-the-usuthu-and-the-onkweni-sections-of-the-zulu-royal-family-1880s1913/07EC250864BDC9DDC04451959454E07B |journal=The Journal of African History |language=en |volume=67 |pages=e8 |doi=10.1017/S002185372510073X |issn=0021-8537|doi-access=free }}] |
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