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This is a famous historical site that is revered by the Ndebele community. The name means "Hill of Chiefs".
This came from an incident where Chiefs that had tried to install a new King in the absence of King Mzilikazi were executed.
Showcasing this wonderful slice of our history and offering you the opportunity to host your own “Indaba’s” and other special occasions on Ntabazinduna Hill. In the heart of our culturally rich Matabeland.
The oral tradition regales that, King Mzilikazi split from Shaka Zulu and formed his own tribe the Ndebele. They moved northwards, on the advice of Robert Moffat. At the Limpopo Mzilikazi split his people into two. Mzilikazi told Gundwane, his principal Induna, to take Nkulumane and Lobengula, his sons with him and carry out Moffat’s instructions which were to travel with the sun on his right cheek in the morning and on his left cheek in the afternoon…and keep on until they reach a range of granite hills and fertile lands around current day Bulawayo. Here they were to settle and await Mzilikazi and his section of the tribe. Moffat said: “Your objective is a flat-topped hill”. This, hill is N’tabazinduna, and the area they settled became known as Matabeleland.
After a time with no news of Mizilkazi, the Chiefs suspected Mizilkazi had died. It is alleged that Gundwane had decided that they must make Nkulumane King during Mizilikazi’s absence. Around this time Mzilikazi arrived in Matabeleland and heard the rumours. He ordered an Indaba on top of N’tabazinduna. He instructed that all Gundwane’s people were to gather on top of the hill and prepare a feast for him.
Legend goes, once Gundwane’s section of the tribe was in place he ordered his Impi to surround the hill and to march up the hill and slaughter all the people whilst spiriting away his sons Nkulumane and Lobengula. Thereafter Mzilikazi retained his position as King and on top of the flat-topped hill, N’tabazinduna. On Ntabazinduna, he all