As a livestock enclosure, a "boma" is the equivalent of "kraal". More and more Zulu got into the ravine, about from the cattle kraal. This was done and to be ratified at the Zulu King's kraal. Bulawayo was founded around 1840 as the kraal of Mzilikazi, the Ndebele king. "An"ne and "kraal", the Afrikaans word for enclosure or corral. No inner kraal is built, since warriors neither own cattle nor undertake stock duties. This perimeter incorporated the storehouse, the hospital, and a stout stone kraal. The governor of his royal kraal was Mahagane Hlophe. He reached Bulawayo in late August to find the kraal filled with white concession-hunters. Primitive pens in South Africa are called "kraal". They had been told to leave their firearms outside the royal kraal. This left the royal kraal critically lacking in security. The city is dominated by a central royal kraal. As a consequence earning a right to establish a kraal in the Goromonzi district. Kraal or settlement elders generally handled local disputes and issues.