Another dark cloud is hanging over the AmaZulu royal family

THE AmaZulu royal family over the last five years has been under a dark cloud of death, and death comes in different forms.

While we empathise with the occurrences taking place in the royal family, this is a matter that the whole royal family should attend to with great urgency.

Death is inevitable, and when it comes no human power can stop it. The news on the passing of AmaZulu senior princess Thembi Zulu-Ndlovu is another sad event for the royal family.

In 2018, King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu lost his son Prince Butho; in 2020 he lost two of his siblings, Queen Noloyiso Sandile regent of AmaRharhabe kingdom and Prince Mandla Zulu; in late November of the same year, Prince Lethukuthula was murdered in Gauteng.

All three deaths occurred in the same year.

In 2021 the royal family again went into a sad period of mourning when King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu passed on.

While the Zulu nation and the country were still recovering from their pain over the passing of the late king, the Zulu nation was informed of the sudden death of Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, who at the time of passing was regent to the Zulu throne.

Shortly after her passing, senior prince Thiza of KwaDlamahlahla passed away. It was clear that the AmaZulu royal family was again in a sombre mood.

These sad chronological events are somewhat evident of a dark cloud over the AmaZulu royal family, and it is now showing its ugly self in the form of the present instability within the royal family and, more precisely, the occurrences surrounding the throne.

A divided AmaZulu royal family is under attack but, while the enemy might seem invincible, this may well not be the case.

With all that is happening within the royal family, they ought to remember that a divided house is a falling house and the enemy will devour their strength and hardearned glorious reputation.

Death comes in different forms; this battle of the throne and the division we are witness to is death itself.

The royal family should know that the longer they embrace division for whatever reason, they are somehow embracing this dark cloud of death.

The Zulu nation is in need of introspection, particularly over the battle of the throne. The longer it is prolonged, the more the spirit of death gains strength.

Death comes in different forms; this battle of the throne and the division we see is death itself, writes NOKWAZI NOMBULELO