By 1989 the name and the boundaries of Zululand had all but vanished from the maps of South Africa, its vastterritory attached to provinces with less-exotic names, its best acreage confiscated and given to others, its people scattered about the country in ugly ghettos or squatters' camps.
The new research radically changes the picture by revealing the diversity and extent of the multitude of smaller components spread over thevastterritory of the Third Reich with different local functions and characters, but forming part of one vast inter-locking system.