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Cetshwayo was supported by most of the territorial sub-chiefs, but Mpande favoured his younger son Mbuyazi. Nongalaza joined Mbuyazi. At the Battle of Ndondakusuka Mbuyazi was defeated, and Cetshwayo massacred almost all his followers, including five of his brothers. [3] Nongalaza barely escaped by diving into the Tugela River and swimming to ...
John William Colenso by Samuel Sidley, 1866. Oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery, London. Magema Magwaza Fuze (c. 1844–1922) was the author of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the first book in the Zulu language published by a native speaker of the language.
Using the printing press he brought to his missionary station at Ekukhanyeni in Natal, and with William Ngidi he published the first Zulu Grammar and English/Zulu dictionary. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] His 1859 journey across Zululand to visit Mpande (the then Zulu King) and meet with Cetshwayo (Mpande's son and the Zulu King at the time of the Zulu War) was ...
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African novelist, linguist, a descendant of the Zulu royal family, and a radically innovative poet who created a combination of traditional and Romantic poetry in the Zulu language.
Rev. O. Stavem translated the name as "The Umamba (a kind of snake) of Maqula". [3] Africanist Harold Scheub gave his name as "Mamba of the Pools". [4]Godwin and Groenewald interpret the name Maquba as "the dustblower", also the name of the Zulu month when strong winds blow.
Rolfes Robert Reginald Dhlomo (1906–1971) was a South African journalist, novelist and historian born in Siyamu, Edendale in the province of KwaZulu. His novella An African Tragedy, published in 1928, was the first fiction work written by a black South African to appear in book form.
Cetshwayo kaMpande (/ k ɛ tʃ ˈ w aɪ. oʊ /; Zulu pronunciation: [ᵏǀétʃwajo kámpande]; c. 1826 – 8 February 1884) was the king [a] of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1884 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been transliterated as Cetawayo, Cetewayo, Cetywajo and Ketchwayo. Cetshwayo consistently ...
The frame story of Nada the Lily introduces an unnamed "White Man" travelling through Natal "during the winter before the Zulu War." Snow causes him to take shelter at the kraal of a blind and very elderly witch-doctor called Zweete. The White Man stays at the kraal of Zweete for many nights, during which, over a fire, the aged man tells him ...