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  2. Zulu Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Zulu Kingdom (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo; Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire, was a monarchy in Southern Africa.During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to the Pongola ...

  3. Zulu people - Wikipedia

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    The Zulu were originally a minor clan in what is today Northern KwaZulu-Natal, founded c. 1574 by Zulu kaMalandela.In the Nguni languages, iZulu means heaven or weather. At that time, the area was occupied by many large Nguni communities and clans (also called the isizwe people or nation, or called isibongo, referring to their clan or family name).

  4. Bambatha Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    The Bambatha Rebellion (or the Zulu Rebellion) of 1906 was led by Bambatha kaMancinza (c. 1860–1906?), leader of the Zondi clan of the Zulu people, who lived in the Mpanza Valley (now a district near Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal) against British rule and taxation in the Colony of Natal, South Africa.

  5. Zulu royal family - Wikipedia

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    The Nguni-speaking clan of the southern Bantus, which evolved into the Zulu people, takes its name from the third of its recorded chiefs. [2] Malandela, believed to have reigned in the early part of the sixteenth century, is the patrilineal ancestor of the present king, whose lineage comes down from him through Chief Senzangakhona to the latter ...

  6. History of South Africa (1815–1910) - Wikipedia

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    During the ongoing Anglo-Zulu Wars, the British eventually established their control over what was then named Zululand, and is today known as KwaZulu-Natal. The British turned to India to resolve their labour shortage, as Zulu men refused to adopt the servile position of labourers and in 1860 the SS Truro arrived in Durban harbour with over 300 ...

  7. Ngoni Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    When the Ngoni people migrated from present-day Zululand, the region was home to various dialects, including the one spoken by the Zulu clan, which was then a small clan. The Ngoni and their cousins, the Shangaan, spoke a dialect prevalent in the Ndwandwe area, which was under Zwide's control, a fierce opponent of Shaka Zulu. After the Ndwandwe ...

  8. South African Wars (1879–1915) - Wikipedia

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    In the 1820s a branch of the Zulu led by Mzilikazi split from the main tribe to form the Ndebele people. Their people moved west from Zululand and settled near present-day Pretoria. They would eventually move slightly north to present day Zimbabwe causing territorial pressure with the Shona people. Conflict with the British colonials erupted in ...

  9. KwaZulu - Wikipedia

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    KwaZulu was a semi-independent bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government as a homeland for the Zulu people.The capital was moved from Nongoma to Ulundi in 1980.