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Posted on May 30, 2016

Isandlwana, The Zulu Victory. Part 4.

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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.”

Posted on January 15, 2016

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”

Posted on January 9, 2016June 2, 2019

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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