Ncapai
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| Ncapai ka Madzikane | |
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| King of AmaBhaca Kingdom | |
| Predecessor | Sonyangwe ka Madzikane |
| Successor | Diko ka Ncapai |
| Born | c. 1804 Bluff (Esibubulungu) now Durban, Zulu Kingdom |
| Died | July 1845 (aged 40–41) Nowalala, Pondoland |
| Spouse | Makhohlisa (senior wife) and several other wives |
| Issue | Diko, Makaula, Sogoni, Dabula, Mpongoma, Tshalaza, Skelem, Ndimitsi |
| Father | Madzikane |
Ncapai (also spelt as Ncapayi or Ncaphayi; c. 1804 Bluff[citation needed]—July 1845, Pondoland) was the king of the Bhaca people between 1826 until his death in July 1845.[1]: 354, 397 He was the second son from the first wife of King Madzikane ka Zulu; the first born being Sonyangwe, his elder brother. He resided at his father's royal residence in Mpoza, the great place facing Mganu mountains and also built another residence in the nearby Lutateni.[2] While trying to attack the Mpondo people, due to the Maitland treaty, he fell off a cliff and died in a place called Nowalala, near Ntabankulu in July 1845.[1]: 397 Faku kaNgqungqushe ordered that he must be killed to save him from the pain and agony he had suffered for days after he had plunged beneath the cliff.[3] Ncapayi is said to have been a ruthless freebooter.[4][5]
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[edit]- 1 2 Theal, George McCall (1908). History of South Africa since 1795. London: Sonnenschein. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
- ↑ Soga, Tiyo (1878). A page of South African Mission Work (second revised ed.). Glasgow: David Bryce & Son. p. 443.
- ↑ Hammond-Tooke, W.D. (1962). Bhaca Society: A People of the Transkeian Uplands, South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 34–37.
- ↑ "Bhaca people". Bhaca. 7 November 2018. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ↑ Theal, George McCall (1919). History of South Africa from 1873 to 1884. Vol. 1. London: George Allen & Unwin. p. 37.
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