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The Zulu Kingdom (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo; Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire, was a monarchy in Southern Africa.During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to the Pongola ...
{{Information |description ={{en|1=Map of Zululand, Natal, Transvaal ect.}} |source =Image extracted from page 91 of ''British Rule in South Africa. Illustrated in the Story of Kama and his tribe, and of the war in Zululand'', by HOLDEN, William Clifford. Original held and digitised by the British Library.
South Africa 2011 Zulu speakers proportion map.svg by Adrian Frith (PD). Map of Zululand, Natal, Transvaal (1879).jpg, image extracted from page 91 of British Rule in South Africa. Illustrated in the Story of Kama and his tribe, and of the war in Zululand, by William Clifford Holden (PD). Author: Mapeh
Zululand (Zulu: KwaZulu) may refer to: Zulu Kingdom (1818–1897) KwaZulu, a Bantustan in South Africa (1981–1994) KwaZulu-Natal, a province of the Republic of South Africa; Zululand District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Diocese of Zululand, a diocese of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa
The Zulu were eventually overpowered by superior British technology. [83] The Anglo-Zulu war resulted in the absorption of traditional Zululand into the British Cape Colony. The second conflict also involved Zulu and British colonials. Bambatha, a leader of the Zondi clan led a rebellion against British authority in the Natal province.
Greytown (lower left) and Fort Buckingham (upper centre), the connecting road, and the Tugela River on an 1879 British map. On 17 September 1878, a British surveyor for the Colony of Natal and a trader were detained by the Zulu while on an island in the Tugela River, which marked the boundary between Natal and Zululand. The men were robbed but ...
In 1887 the British annexed Zululand, effectively mediatising the Zulu dynasty as paramount chiefs in the region. [2] The Zulu people and dynasty retained their distinct cultural identity and a measure of independence under the governments of South Africa through the establishment of Zululand as a bantustan and the subsequent abolition of ...
Shepstone eventually turned on the Zulus, as he felt he was undermined by Cetshwayo's skillful negotiations for land area and compromised by encroaching Boers, as well as the fact that the Boundary Commission established to examine the ownership of the land in question had dared to rule in favour of the Zulus. [5] The report was subsequently ...