The 3 Dikgosi's 1895 visit to England

The Ndebele rule also extended over Mashona, although the Portuguese sought to dispute this in 1888. In a diplomatic dispatch of April 27, 1888, Senor de Carvalho of the Portuguese Consulate in part transmitted the following to the British High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Hercules Robinson:

“In the Government Gazette Extraordinary of the 35th instant (April 25) is published a Treaty entered into between Lobengula, ruler of the Amatabele, and the Assistant Commissioner, J. S. Moffat, and duly approved and ratified by your Excellency as Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for South Africa.  In this Treaty the tribes of Mashonaland and Maka Kalaka are acknowledged as tributaries to the said Lobengula, ruler of the Amatabeles.