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The_Zulu_war_Perspective_J.stor.pdf - 3 views

Monyebodi RT 219041734

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  • es clear that the Z
  • war was very different from the English or European view, not so much as to detail but as to me
  • war was very different from the Englis
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  • tory. In itself it cannot compare with the Ndwandwe war which determined that Shaka should be the master of the country and not Zwide, or with the great battle of Ndondakusuka which determined that Cetshwayo should be the Zulu king and not Mbuy
  • all
  • upreme racist whose arrogance is incredible to-
  • m, which had been invaded (very slightly and very briefly) but not occupied or even an
  • There were seiious consequences to British interference in the internal affairs of the Zulu kingdom, but the Zulu War itself, or rather the English War, seems to have had relatively little impact on Zulu national consciousness.
  • The imperialist point of view is
  • Zulu king was indeed removed for a few
  • , it was destructive to a certain e
  • Brookes and Webb write in the University of Natal publication A History of Natal (1965), 'As the sun declined to the west over Isandlwana, Cetshwayo had lost the war . . . The reputation of the British army and of Lord Chelmsford had to be vindicated'
  • elessness of the Zulu cause in direct confrontation with British fire-arms. A
  • erse. A Zulu psychological block? An unconscious wish to forget the unfortu
  • Zulus. Ndondakusuka has given rise to a long play by Ndelu, a long poem by Vilakazi, and there are many references to it in Zulu literature. Isandlwana has inspired no work of literary art. It is clear that the War was more significant to the British than to the Zulus; to the British it was, in fact, something of a dis
  • this interregnum set the stage for the civil war which from 1883 to 1887 destroyed the
  • 44 THEORIA
  • dom. Zu
  • Zululan
  • a bolt of lightning, it was not altogether unexp
  • published in 1970 by Negro Universities
  • e loss of life and pro
  • is a d
  • Zulu point of view
  • Dhlomo affirms the good character of Cetshwayo; he denies Frere's slanderous accusations, he condemns the invasion, he decries th
  • an average of 6 pages) is Ukucandwa kwezwe (The splittin
  • as sent into Zululand in October 1879
  • already been sent to Lord Chelmsford by Cetshwayo as a peace offering), and he gathered some useful information which Colens
  • Co
  • so
  • nyama (The Black People). F
  • He was i
  • cern for
  • kraal, he said to me, "Do you know that the white people are coming h
  • Cetshwayo's post-restoration assembly at Ulundi (Ondini), in which were killed so many of the isikhulu (dignitaries) who were the pillars of the nation, and after which Cetshwayo never really regained his position. At last we start to see Zulu history as it already was, and to understand the internal tensions which eventually brought about the disintegration of the nation. British interference aggravated these tensions, which the Zulu government, left to
  • It was clearly apparent that the white people were determined to w
  • nding Cetshwayo and demanding to know what wrong he had done that he should be attacked. But there was no longer a loophole (ithuba) for the Natal Government to act otherwise, as it had already decided to invade
  • In the end Cetshwayo was vindicated, and it was found that he had done no wrong. ... He went overseas and saw Queen Victoria and Prince Edward and the dignitaries who rule England, and they were greatly pleased to meet the Zulu king. It was said that he was to return to his country and rule his people as he had previously r
  • toration. The brief disturbance brought about by the European War was over, and Zululand now devoted itself to settling 'the grudge of mutual hatred' ( amagqubu okuzondana) between the Suthu an
    • monyebodirt
      monyebodirt on 23 Apr 23
       
      1879, Colenso was sent to Zululand to try and make amendments of peace with King Cetshwayo after the ongoing wars and aggression from Britain
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'Race', warfare, and religion in midnineteenth-century Southern Africa: the Khoikhoi re... - 3 views

'Lindiwe.S Mbatha 222091943 '

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  • On Christmas day 1850, the Ž nal frontier war in a long and bitter series between the British Cape Colony and the Xhosa erupted. In the wake of a witchcraft eradication campaign directed by the young spiritual leader Mlanj eni, Ngqika Xhosa warriors
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      l222091943 on 25 Apr 23
       
      on the final frontier, they practiced witchcraft eradication campaign, which was directed by the young spiritual leader Mlangeni, Ngqika who was a Xhosa warrior.
  • attacked the military villages in the Eastern Cape which the British had planted on l and taken from them in the aftermath of the 1846- 47 War of the Axe.
  • Crais 1992: 173-188; Peires 1989: 1-44; Mostert 1992; Stapleton 1994; Keegan 1996
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      l222091943 on 25 Apr 23
       
      Definition of servant's people who performed duties for others especially person employed on domestic duties or as a personal attendant
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  • servants
  • Khoikhoi community sometimes clashed with the Xhosa desire to regain their own lost land and to have strategic
  • r at the time so-called ‘Hottentot’
  • Hottentot nationalism’ (Ross 1997
  • Khoikhoi and San and the f ormerly enslaved rose in large numbers from within the Cape Colony in support of the Xhosa
  • Matroos would become a nationalist hero, his life story suggests that he was also a would-be client, poorly treated by those with whom he sought to cooperate.
  • Xhosa and Khoikhoi in the eighteenth century had led to a high Xhosa degree of intermarriage with the Gonaqua, the Khoikhoi group closest to Xhosa lands. The Gonaqua continued to identif y as Khoikhoi, however, despite ongoing
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      l222091943 on 25 Apr 23
       
      as time went on the colonization of the khoikhoi and the Xhosa started to cause conflict despite the intermarriage between the xhosa and the khoikhoi continued to happen
  • The Mf engu were a part icularly resented presence for the most par
    • l222091943
      l222091943 on 25 Apr 23
       
      The Mfengus were not really liked in the society people felt bitter in the presence of the Mfengus
  • rebel
    • l222091943
      l222091943 on 25 Apr 23
       
      definitions of rebels a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader
  • The course of this agonising war has been well traced by several scholars (Ross 2000; Crais 1992; Kirk 1973, 1980; Mostert 1992; Peires 1981, 1989)
  • Speeches were made in which speakers explained that they had been defrauded of their very pay during the last war and had returned to Ž nd that their cattle, left without keepers, had been sold at public auction: ‘On their return home they found themselves ruined.
    • l222091943
      l222091943 on 25 Apr 23
       
      people went back home empty handed as their cattle were auctioned they were very dissapointed as they did not get their stock
  • On December 30, 1850, Hermanus Matroos, leader of a settlement at Blinkwater in the Kat River, attacked a military post close to Fort Beaufort. On Ja nuary 1, 1851, hi s f orce s captured t he f ort iŽ ed farmhouse of W. Gil be rt, a Blinkwater commissioner (Ross 2000: 40). Matroos was an ironic leader for a explicitly ‘Khoikhoi’ uprising. He was the son of an escaped slave and a Xhosa woman. In his youth he had worked on a farm in the colon
  • he gathered around him a large number of impoverished clients, mostly Xhosa and Mfengu, including 48 men and their families by 1842; Stockenstrom, who claims that Matroos was disliked and feared by local Khoi, reduced his territory in 1836 ( Crais 1992: 162; Stockenstrom 1854: 14). In the 1846 War of the Axe
  • The issue of corruption arises around this commission in a triple sense. Firstly, the magistrate, Louis Meurant, and others were corrupt, colluding to have as much land as possible f orfeited. Meurant was clearly engaged in shady practices, such as exploiting the i ll iteracy of many Kat River sett lers to f al sif y docume
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      l222091943 on 25 Apr 23
       
      corruption started as the white settlers have won they started having greed and wanted more they were falsifying the documents so that they could have more land
  • By 1850, the bulk of the descendants of the Khoikhoi and San of the Eastern Cape lived on mission stations, on the white farms that employed them as labourers, in urban areas such as Grahamstown where they worked primarily as domestic servants attached to white households, at the Kat River settlement, and in a few cases on the margins of white property, where they were deŽ ned by the state as squatter
  • In early 1851, a colonial force led by Colonel Somerset brutally recaptured the Kat River settlement. Both Mfengu and white members of this force committed atrocities against local inhabitants, including loyalists. Some white settlers paraded through the valley with a red  ag with the word ‘extermination’ on it. For a number of loyalists, the brutalities stretched loyalty to the breaking
  • Rebellion became a place as much as an organized military movemen
  • Although they did not experience clear-cut military defeat, they did not have sufŽ cient resources for a protracted Ž ght; by 1852, women and children were staggering starving from the rebel camps (McKay 1871: 206). Also by 1852, the already fragile alliance with the Xhosa was fracturing. Nonetheless, some rebels would remain in the bush as late as 1858, despite colonial pardons and despite the formal submission of the Xhosa chiefs to the British in 1853 .
  • (Elbourne 1994; Trapido 1992; Bradlow 1985; Mason 1992: 580-585, NewtonKing 1980 )
  • The Kat River settlers were conscripted into the colonial f orces in 1835-6 and again in 1846-7.
  • As these con icts over the meaning of Christianity suggest, the war deeply divided the non-white communities of the colonial Eastern Cape. Although many nuclear families went into the bush together, with children, at the most intimate level the war also split many families apart. This was all the more so given the large number of people beyond the nuclear core who were considered to form part of a Khoikhoi fami
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      l222091943 on 25 Apr 23
       
      the non whites started to colonize eastern cape.
  • During the war, loyalists were endlessly provoked, just as the loyalty of the Khoikhoi had been severely tested during the two previous frontier wars.
  • body the conf usions of identity of the Cape Colony: he was the son of a white missionary, James Read Snr, and a Khoikhoi woman, Elizabeth Valentyn. In conj unction with his f ather and t he r adi cal wing of t he L ondon Missi onary Soci ety, he had f ought all his lif e f or Christianity, civilization, and the rule of law, which he believed would save the Khoikhoi f rom degradation and inj ustice. He had been educated in Scotland and Cape Town, and described himself in 1834 as a liberal: he believed in the rights of man. 39 He was also a cynical observer of the brutalities of colonial rule. He sat uneasily between white and African society: he was a missionary, and thus at least theoretically respectable, and yet he was of mixed race. Louis Meurant, son of a slave owner and later to be a magistrate at Kat River, exempliŽ ed the colonial conviction
  • He published a series of long letters in the South African Commerical A dvertise
  • And in 1852 he kept a notebook as what proved to be an abortive commission of inquiry into the Kat River rebellion began its work. He attended sessions and took assiduous notes. His notebooks begin with a certain deŽ ant optimism that the truth would out, and even a biting wit. As the commission proceeded, however, it be
  • The victory of the white settler narrative was expressed in debates over land conŽ scation
  • 1835 devastation of the settlement during war. And so those who wished the return of land were compelled to describe the stat e of their house and grounds, as the com missi oners sought to dem onst rate t he quintessential lack of civilization of erf-holders without glass windows, brick walls, or more than one room. This lack of civilization in turn justiŽ ed the colonial rhetoric of ‘Hottentot’ primitiveness and savage
  • Most Khoikhoi, i ncl uding Ž eld cornet s, were not actually living like Brit ish Victorian
  • On January 8, 1851, Matroos led an unsuccessful rebel assault on Fort Beaufor
  • A second important aspect of the af termath of rebellion is that the Khoikhoi were no longer perceived as useful agents of rule by the British state
  • There is a letter in the South African library from the last surviving daughter of James Read Jnr to the archivis
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monyebodirt

The Anglo-Zulu War and its Aftermath.pdf - 4 views

'Monyebodi RT' 219041734 Zulu War

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  • history of what is today KwaZulu-Natal between 1495 and 1845
  • publishers commissioned two experts on the Anglo-Zulu War, John Laband as series editor and Ian Knight
  • . A short analysis of the attitude and motives of Bishop Colenso
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  • John Laband has now supplemented The IllustratedGuide to the Anglo-Zulu War with The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars, 1883-1888.
  • In 1995 Laband published Rope of Sand, a history of the Zulu kingdom during the nineteenth century.’ The book contained numerous maps of nineteenth- century Zulu battles, including those which took place during the years of civil war in Zululand between 1883 and 1888.
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Chief Of Staff's Journal of the Military Operations in the Transvaal , 1879. - 4 views

'Monyebodi RT' 219041734 THE ZULU WAR

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    This is a Gale Primary source on the Zulu War where General Garnet Wolseley arrived in KZN at the end of Jun. He anted to form operations of desultory character against Chief Sekhukhune. His (Chief Sekhukhune) town in the Lulu mountains had not been taken by the enemy (british). Colonel Lanyon was contemplating taking offensive action against the Chief, however, the commanding general called these operations off and told Lanyon to only focus on defensive measures. Colonel didn't want more wars that would add onto the wars that were already occuring. The commander thought it would be best to attack Chief Sekhukhune when they have sufficient millitary to ensure victory.
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CHIEF Cetshwayo - 1 views

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'Monyebodi RT' King Cetshwayo 'Zulu War'

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    This is an image of Chief Cetshwayo during a period of the Anglo-Zulu War known as 'The destruction of the Zulu kingdom' in 1879 -1896
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