Zululand and Natal

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mondlinzuza on 25 Apr 23The picture shows the Zulu warrior with a spear and shield. They used cow's skin to make a shield. The shield is ineffective when fighting an army with guns. Hence, the British won in the end against the Zulu army.
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By the end of the 18 th century tribal wars became more severe. Tribal leaders emerged determined to win more land at the expense of neighbouring groups.
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The Zulu was originally a small clan living in the territory of one of the Nguni rulers in Natal, Dingiswayo. Shaka who was born in 1787, was one of the sons of the Zulu clan chief, Senzangakona. His mother’s bad temper led to her being driven away from her husband’s household and Shaka grew up among strangers. He had an unhappy childhood; he was bullied and mocked by his companions. Memories of humiliation gave him a ferocious thirst for power. As a youth he joined Dingiswayo’s forces and earned a reputation for reckless courage. This found him favour with the chief. In 1816, after the death of his father, with the aid of Dingiswayo, he removed a brother from the chieftaincy of Zulu and became the chief of Zululand. Shaka proved to be a military leader of outstanding genius
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Southeast Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century witnessed the entrenchment of a settler colonial polity in Natal as well as the invasion and later annexation of the Zulu Kingdom by British forces. British settlers sought to make good their claims to control the land and labour of the region, particularly following the defeat of the Zulu military in 1879.
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This essay traces the post-war career of a transfrontiersman and examines how John Dunn attempted to mobilise understandings of race and masculinity in his favour as a Britishappointed „Zulu chief.
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As Cetshwayo‟s personal secretary and advisor, Dunn was treated as a client of the king and further initiated into Zulu economic and social systems, marrying women of Cetshwayo‟s choosing, and acquiring cattle and farmland. Dunn asserted that Cetshwayo‟s own izinduna supported his position, arguing, “You are living with us – you are one of us, but we don‟t know any other white man.” 7
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