The Assassination Of Shaka The Zulu

Dingane and Mhlangana, both Shaka's half-brothers, appeared to have made at least two attempts to assassinate Shaka before they succeeded, with support from the Mpondo elements and some disaffected and disatisfied IziYendane people.
Because Shaka had made enough enemies even among his own very people to hasten his demise. Getting rid of him for good therefore came relatively easy and quickly after the death of his mother, Nandi in October 1827. Coupled with the devastation caused by Shaka's subsequent rash and erratic way of life and rulership.

For instance, Shaka ordered that no crops should be planted during the year following his dead mother's mourning, no milk (the basis of the Zulu diet at the time) was to be used, and any woman who became pregnant was to be killed along with her husband!
At least 7,000 people deemed not to be sufficiently grief-stricken by the loss of Shaka's mother were executed. To aggravate matters, the killing was not restricted to humans only; even several cows were slaughtered so that their young calves would know what losing a mother felt like!

Shaka was finally killed by three assassins sometime in 1828. September was the most frequently cited date, when almost all available Zulu manpower had been mobilised and sent on yet another military expedition to sweep the north en mass.
This left the royal kraal critically lacking in adequate protection. And that was all the advantage the conspirators needed. An iNduna named Mbopa created a diversion, and Dingane and Mhlangana struck the fatal blows on Shaka.

Shaka's corpse was dumped by his assassins in an empty grain pit, which was then filled with stones and mud. The exact location is unknown. A monument was built at a place randomly guessed as the alleged site.
An historian holds it that the true site is somewhere on Couper Street in the village of Stanger, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.