Dingane kaSenzangakhona Zulu (ca. 1795–1840)—commonly referred to as
Dingane or
Dingaan—was a
Zulu chief who became king of the
Zulu Kingdom in 1828. He set up his royal capital
UmGungundlovu, and one of numerous military encampments or
kraals, in the Emakhosini valley just south of the
White Umfolozi River on the slope of Lion Hill (
Singonyama).