a made-up name for a society. Dingaan is the Dutch spelling of the Zulu name Dingane, (d. 1840), the name of a Zulu chieftain. In 1837, he permitted a group of Dutch to settle in Natal (a province of South Africa) and then massacred them. The victory the next year by which the death of the Dutch settlers was avenged is annually commemorated in South Africa on 16 December as Dingaan's Day. —3rd South African published appr gls (14.4.92)