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  • Zululand and Natal
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      The Zululand and Natal are confusing. Which region belongs to Natal? One will think that Zululand is the whole of Natal.
  • 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.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      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.
  • 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
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      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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  • The Mthethwa themselves were conquered and their new chief, Mondisa was killed and replaced by another member of the royal family appointed by Shaka. Shaka added the remnants of the Mthethwa to his Zulu forces.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Shaka combines the military of the Mthethwa with his Zulu force after taking over the Zulu kingdom. The Mthethwa's rulers had to die for this to happen.
  • In Shaka’s system the territorial chiefs lacked the power and importance that they had in the traditional system. Though they might continue to adjudicate over cases that arose in territories under their control, their authority was restricted. All young men were drafted into the army and it was in the army that all the power resided. Without an effective backing the sub-chiefs could not exercise great influence and were entirely at the mercy of Shaka’s whims.
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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Young people were subjected to joining the military.
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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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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      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.
  • 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.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Shaka is more of lunatic. It morally wrong to betray the group that gave him a shelter by turning against them.
  • chiefdom
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      chiefdom mean a territory ruled by a chief.
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  • I present a brief history of the Zulu Kingdom from its formation to the European destruction of the empire (1808-1879) and trace the factors that can account for the evolution of Zulu politics in terms of Carneiro's and Service's state formation theories, indicating the strengths and limitations of the theories
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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      It was a king Cetshwayo's era when the Zulu kingdom overthrew white people after Shaka's ruling.
  • he reign of Shaka marks a crucial phase in the history of the Zulu Kingdom. After Shaka had seized power, he further developed the disciplined organization of the military. He introduced the assegai (a short thrusting spear) and trained the army to encircle the enemy in a shield-to-shield formation so that rival warriors could be stabbed at the hear
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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Shaka introduced tactics and strategies to the Zulu military. He re-enforce weapons and shield to succeed almost every war.
  • . Shaka also resorted to violence to neutralize the powers of the Zulu sorcerers so that he alone would have a monopoly on magical practices
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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Shaka's regime is most brutal era of all Zulu rulers.
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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.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      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.
  • 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.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      After they defeated the Zulu military they replace Zulu chief with the British Zulu chief.
  • 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
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      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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  • Then as now, race and gender remained both highly contested and contingent, tied to relations of power and requiring policing to maintain their effectiveness in a land that settlers believed to be under siege.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      white settler institutionalized gender inequality
  • amabutho
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Amabutho are groups of warriors or ibutho is an army
  • As relations between the Zulu kingdom and the Natal government reached their breaking point in 1878, Dunn frantically attempted to use his claims to authority to simultaneously end the potential for war and reinforce his own personal position in Zululand
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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Dunn became neutral and the bridge between these two groups. Communicating with both sides to stabilized growing tensions between them.
  • defection
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Defection means deserting, and British settlers felt deserted by Dunn who was suppose to be in side.
  • The Zulus, particularly after their crushing victory over the British at Isandhlwana in January, filled British newspapers, periodicals, and conversations.
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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Zulus end up winning against the military equipped with guns.
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    The 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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