Mpande, the half-brother to both Dingane and…

Mpande, the half-brother to both Dingane and Shaka who had been spared from King Dingane's purges of the Zulu nation, defects with seventeen thousand followers, and, together with Andries Pretorius and a force of four hundred Boers, goes to war with Dingane in January 1840

At the Battle of Maqongqo many of Dingane's own men desert to Mpande's army.

Dingane has his general Ndlela kaSompisi executed, and with a few followers he seeks refuge in Nayawo territory on the Lubombo mountains.

A group of Nyawo and Swazi assassinate him in Hlatikhulu Forest.

He is succeeded as king by Mpande.

Dingane's grave is near Ingwavuma in the Hlatikulu Forest—an hour's drive from Tembe elephant park.