Zululand and Natal
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Microsoft Word - HRL-Vol.30 2016.docx.pdf - 2 views
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The Zululand and Natal are confusing. Which region belongs to Natal? One will think that Zululand is the whole of Natal.
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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 reason the Bantu people were fighting was because the grazing land became scarce. Weak group had to surrender their land to the stronger group.
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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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Dingiswayo was the ruler of the Nguni people and the Zulu clan was small and ruled by Senzangakhona who is a father of Shaka. Shaka had to grow up in Dingiswayo's region because his mother was expelled from the Zulu clan due to her behavior.
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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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The significance of war between these two groups indicates that African people did not stand aside while British settlers colonized them. The perception that Africans were naive and let outsides exploit them and their resources.
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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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After they defeated the Zulu military they replace Zulu chief with the British 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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Dunn who is place as a Zulu ruler develop a friendship with king Cetshwayo. It evident that Cetshwayo wanted to be in good terms with white settlers.
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JSTORE ZULU KINGDOM.pdf - 4 views
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The rise of the Zulu empire over a relatively short period of time, its powerful expansion over a wide territory, the overwhelming violence and terror involved, and the brutal European overthrow of the regime have long attracted scholarly attention from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists of African political systems.
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It is fascination how the Zulu kingdom became powerful in the presence of British settlers. What tactics and strategies they use to fight against great weapons. The source of courage to take an almost impossible mission.
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Shaka an illegitimate son of the Zulu chief, took refuge with the MthethwaS joined their army, and became one of its bravest warriors. When the chief of the Zulu died, Shaka seized power and reorganized the Zulu community along Mthethwa military lines based on age rather than kinship. Dingiswayo died in 1818 during a confrontation with the Ndwandwe community. Thereafter Shaka killed the legitimate heir of Dingiswayo appointed a favorite to be the new Mthethwa chiefs but soon subsumed the Mthethwa regiments under Zulu control and proclaimed himself the new ruler of the Zulu Kingdom.
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Shaka is more of lunatic. It morally wrong to betray the group that gave him a shelter by turning against them.
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chiefdom
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chiefdom mean a territory ruled by a chief.
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