Dead skies.
A partial Solar eclipse now hits the camp, a stillness seemed to come over the atmosphere, and chaos reigned. It was said that it was as if God had closed his eyes for grief to look upon the slopes of iSandlwana. For the Zulu it was a time when the netherworld drew close to that of the living, a time of terrible umnyama, of darkness, were the spirits of the ancestors were said to be able to walk the earth, added to the smoke, noise and fear of the battle, it proved a potent cocktail. Continue reading “Isandlwana, The Zulu Victory. Part 4.”
iSandlwana: The Zulu Victory part 3.
The Battle of iSandlwana began by accident on the 22nd of January 1879. The large Zulu Impi, resting from their arduous march from the royal capitol at oNdini in the Ngwebeni valley just east of the iSandlwana Mountain, were intending to keep a low profile until the next day but fate intervened. Continue reading “iSandlwana: The Zulu Victory part 3.”
iSandlwana: The Zulu Victory part 2
We continue our journey to see the Battle of iSandlwana as the Zulu’s saw it with the testimonies of the men themselves: Continue reading “iSandlwana: The Zulu Victory part 2”
iSandlwana: The Zulu Victory. Part 1
This is the start of my humble attempt to tell the story of iSandlwana as the great victory it was, rather than as a great defeat. There is no coincidence that it is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Zulu Kingdom by Shaka kaSenzagakhona. It will be told as much as I am able, through the surviving accounts of the Zulu warriors. Continue reading “iSandlwana: The Zulu Victory. Part 1”
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