History's most brutal killers, the Majingilane Male Lions

[Tshokwane]

Three sons? No. You asked about the older ones. Well, those three are the older sons they have. 
Then, you have the 3 young Sparta males, the 3 young Tsalala males and the 3 young Mangheni males. Then you have 3 Othawa cubs and 5 newborn cubs from one of the Mhangeni lionesses.
As for how many daughters they have, I'm not sure, but they have plenty.

Here's an article written in the londolozi blog, dated from June 2015. 
It's called Happy Father’s Day to the Majingilane

As fathers, and therefore protectors, we have to look elsewhere for shining examples, and we need look no further than the Mapogos’ usurpers, the Majingilane.
At first count – and my maths is bad – I can think of at least 21 offspring currently alive and over two years old that this coalition has fathered. And this does not include cubs from the prides in the west that the Majingilane took over in the last year. The Styx males, at least one of the Fourways males (possibly both), four Tsalala offspring and the young lioness, four young lions in the Sparta pride and the nine Mhangeni sub-adults (although I have heard reports that this number may be down to eight now) are all Majingilane offspring that have a more-than-even chance at making it to maturity.

Among the younger lions, most notably Mhangeni and Tsalala, the young males are still most certainly not out of the woods, and the older Sparta young males are about to be kicked out of the territory for good. With about one out of every eight male cubs surviving to maturity, one can appreciate that not all of these males may make it to breeding age, but the Majingilane, in protecting the pride territories for as long as they have, have given them as good a chance as they could have.

The young lionesses, destined to stay with their prides, have a good chance of surviving to sexual maturity, and with eight of them potentially breeding within the next couple of years, the genes of the Majingilane seem to be on a firm wicket.


So on Father’s Day, even as the Majingilane themselves look to fade into oblivion over the next couple of years, we can still celebrate their legacy, and acknowledge the genetic success they seem destined to achieve. Reply