South Africa’s Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini, has refuted reports that he was poisoned, insisting in a video that he was in good condition.

It comes amid contradictory worries after the Zulu traditional prime minister announced over the weekend that the king was being hospitalized for possible poisoning in neighboring Eswatini.

According to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the King was in hospital after the untimely death of one of his senior aides, who died of suspected poisoning. But the king's official spokesman, says he is in "perfect health."

However, in the video released to South African media, the monarch stated that he was due to go for his regular medical check-ups, which he chose to undertake in Eswatini.

"[It’s] not because I have been poisoned, I am not poisoned. I am well. I feel 100%.

“I’m happy, everything is well functioning, there is no poison whatsoever. So please people, mostly to the Zulu people, the Zulu royal family also to remind everyone to please don’t listen to everything that people say,” he said.

King Misuzulu is also quoted as telling the AFP news agency over the phone from Eswatini that he was "very fit and sound."

The 48-year-old monarch succeeded to the throne last year after his father, monarch Goodwill Zwelithini, died in a royal succession dispute.