Ngungunyane, son of Mzila, was the last king of the Gaza empire, reigning from 1884 until his defeat in 1895. Ruling a vast tributary state over the Tsonga of southern Mozambique, he manoeuvred between Portuguese, British and Boer interests before Portuguese columns under Mouzinho de Albuquerque broke his power and captured him; he was exiled first to Lisbon and then to the Azores, where he died in 1906. Praised as the Lion of Gaza, he became the supreme symbol of Tsonga-Shangaan resistance, and in 1985 his remains were carried home to be reburied as a hero of independent Mozambique.