Some 150 British soldiers defended the mission station Rorke's Drift against 4, 000 Zulus in 1879.
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The last of the Bonaparte line, the son of Napolean III, was slain there, by Zulus.
In the end the Zulus like most other African tribes faced with European colonization were vanquished.
Amid talk of a challenge to the president, he will bank on the support of his fellow Zulus.
Not far from where he fell, more than a thousand British soldiers were slaughtered in one day, by Zulus.
Paton christened his fictional family Kumalo, a common enough name among Zulus, roughly the equivalent of Smith or Jones in America.
Then, in the early twentieth century, British colonial authorities imposed a tax on the Zulus that had to be paid in cash.
The Englishman escaped, the Indian survived, and each went home to other matters, but history was not nearly so kind to the Zulus.
His genius has been to combine this with political imagination, using his natural charm to seduce ordinary whites and blacks, Afrikaners and Zulus.
For much of the nineteenth century, the Zulus had been the continent's archetypal warriors, famous for inventing new weapons and adopting innovative battlefield tactics.
Few blacks, apart from Inkatha-supporting rural Zulus, voted for anyone else.
In the 1970s, South Africa created KwaZulu, a state for blacks in part of historical Zululand: its capital was Ulundi, where the Zulus were finally defeated.
Those who did not pay it were subject to fines or imprisonment or both, but while most Zulus were willing to pay it, few had any cash.
Squeezed into a shrunken fraction of the space they had formerly occupied, the Zulus nevertheless maintained many of the traditions that had become inherent parts of their culture.
With the Zulus breaking down the door to get in, he knocked a hole through the wall into an adjacent ward, where he met up with a Private Alfred Hook.
One Zulu writer suggested that many of the more visible members of the tribe had by then become "postcard Zulus, " merely costumed actors playing roles they neither appreciated nor understood.
In a generation or two, the Zulus were farmers and herders no more, no longer proudly self-sufficient, and their families, once the very soul of their tribe, quickly began to crumble.
Mr Zuma was prominent in promoting the ANC among Zulus who had voted for the Inkatha Freedom Party in the first free elections in 1994, and was consistently elected to senior ANC posts.
While the other parties also claim to represent all South Africans, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is mostly backed by Zulus, the Democratic Alliance appeals to English-speaking whites, the New National Party is backed by Afrikaans speakers, both coloured and white, and so on.
If a pregnancy did result, which was quite often the case, since very few Zulu men or women practiced any form of birth control (like most African men, Zulus seemed to abhor the use of condoms), he would move blithely on, without a backward glance.
More a squatters' camp than a village, it nevertheless offers a shabby air of permanence, with at least a hundred or so Zulus residing in corrugated tin shacks and cardboard shanties, all either on their way to someplace else or with no other place to go.
It had not only the world's second-highest waterfall but also the wondrous Valley of a Thousand Hills, which had been created, said the Zulus, when God crumpled the world in his hands just at the point of discarding it in disgust...before deciding against it and over the years, even into its declining days, it had remained a haunting source and setting for the storytellers of the country.
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