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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 ...
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. Copied from Flickr.
The Battle of Isandlwana (alternative spelling: Isandhlwana) on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.
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
During the ongoing Anglo-Zulu Wars, the British eventually established their control over what was then named Zululand, and is today known as KwaZulu-Natal. The British turned to India to resolve their labour shortage, as Zulu men refused to adopt the servile position of labourers and in 1860 the SS Truro arrived in Durban harbour with over 300 ...
There is a brief allusion made to Cetshwayo in the novel Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee in the line "The new Africans, pot-bellied, heavy-jowled men on their stools of office: Cetshwayo, Dingane in white skins." [9] Civilization V: Brave New World features Cetshwayo as the leader of the Zulus in the Scramble for Africa scenario.
The Ndwandwe are a Bantu Nguni-speaking people who populate sections of southern Africa. They are also known as the Nxumalo's They are also known as the Nxumalo's The Ndwandwe, with the Mthethwa , were a significant power in present-day Zululand at the turn of the nineteenth century. [ 1 ]
The Battle of Ulundi took place at the Zulu capital of Ulundi (Zulu: oNdini) on 4 July 1879 and was the last major battle of the Anglo-Zulu War.The British Army broke the military power of the Zulu Kingdom by defeating the main Zulu army and immediately afterwards capturing and burning the royal kraal of oNdini.