Latest Bid To Halt Zulu King’s Coronation Fails

Weeks before the new Zulu king is to be crowned, the royal family is still bringing disputes before the South African courts, however, the most recent court case has been struck off.

On Tuesday afternoon a judge described an urgent application to stop the coronation of King Misuzulu kaZwelithini as a non-urgent matter.

It had been filed by the king’s uncle, Prince Mbonisi kaBhekuzulu, and 12 others who do not want King Misuzulu to replace his late father King Goodwill Zwelithini, who died in April last year.

For more than a year the family has brought a host of succession and inheritance disputes before the courts, with several members of the royal family forming factions about who the successor should be.

Another case is still open, in which members of the royal family dispute South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recognition of King Misuzulu – something that is always done by the presidency as a symbolic gesture.

It does not seem like that case will cause a delay to the coronation, which now looks set to go ahead next month.

Source: BBC