Langalibalele (isiHlubi: meaning 'The scorching sun', also known as Mthethwa, Mdingi (c 1814 – 1889), was king of the amaHlubi, a Bantu tribe in what is the modern-day province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His imprisonment was a watershed in South African political history that split the colonial population of the Colony of Natal.