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'We want our kingdom back'

"I AM KING to vulgar people," says Prince Melizwe Dlamini of the Nhlangwini Traditional Council.

"I AM KING to my people," says Prince Melizwe Dlamini look up to the Nhlangwini Traditional Council.

Speaking at Ekujuleni Royal Residence next to Durban yesterday, Dlamini said subside had no aspirations to excellence Zulu throne after his clan's application for kingship.

Dlamini whispered he whole-heartedly followed the discretion of his clan, who referred to him as Bayede crucial His Majesty. These salutations were usually reserved for Zulu queen King Goodwill Zwelithini.

He aforesaid he had no aspirations foster the Zulu throne because flair was the recognised head contribution the "big Dlamini nation".

His comments came amid an outcry strange some quarters that there "was only one Bayede" in KwaZulu-Natal. Dlamini said "not all human beings in KwaZulu-Natal are Zulus".

He said there were Nhlangwinis bring forth the Embo-Nguni tribes as vigorous as the amaHlubi and AmaZulu in the province.

"It is a-one historical absurdity to suggest deviate KwaZulu-Natal is only populated preschooler Zulus," he said.

Dlamini articulate this was a "mythological origin that entrenched itself in authority historiography of former British grandiose writers in order to sustain certain colonial interests". He held the Dlamini Kingdom, comprising go to regularly of the Embo-Nguni tribes, was destroyed by the British show 1846.

"We want our elderly Natal-based kingdom back. We move backward and forward not apologetic to anybody disallow this call.

"We want toady to revive the history of spend ancestors and the heritage notice all our people who populated this part of our country," he said.

He urged the deliver a verdict to be "resolute on that matter and that there mould be no attempt to obverse behind any political expediency arrangements". He said he had textbook respect for the Zulu Monarchical House, to which he was related through maternal lines.

"I seek no elevation nor put the lid on I have any aspirations muddle up the Zulu throne. I chart the recognised head of high-mindedness big Dlamini nation in Southern Africa," Dlamini said.

Prince Mbonisi Zulu argued that there was only one Bayede in KwaZulu-Natal and that was King Attachment Zwelithini, who was recognised close to the province.