The road to kingship is punctuated by many pitfalls with many slips between the throne and the coronation, as many heirs have discovered in their dramatic quest peppered with hilariously absurd intrigues.
When a distraught queen mother, Wamanya, lost her first five babies soon after their birth, she defiantly challenged fate by throwing her newest son in 1849 to a rubbish bin, locally known as makhoha.