Zulus Quotes
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. The Dutch and British landed at Capetown, the Southern tip of Africa and gradually expanded North. The Zulus were equally expansionist in Africa. They started from Central Africa and expanded South. Both these expansionist powers seized the land from the indigenous Blacks. It was a race for who could dominate the land first. Eventually, these two powers ran into each other and there were two Zulu-English wars in which the Zulus not only held their own against the dominant white world power, but defeated them in several major battles. Many of the English clergy admired the Zulus, and the major political issues in Europe had to do with what was called the “Scramble or Africa”.
The whites had come to South Africa by sea—English and Dutch. Many settled at the Southern Shore—Capetown area. The Dutch Boers however were more interested in farming and commerce and moved North taking land from the natives who sparsely populated the interior of the land. At the same time the aggressive and sophisticated Zulus came from the North. Like the Boers, they were after land and seized it from the natives. It was inevitable that the two conquering, land grabbing groups would run into each other. The English had had a number of wars with the Zulus, but the English were not real competitors with the Zulu for land. So when England annexed the Tranvaal area, the Zulus were pleased as the English would control the Boers and the Zulus did not have to be contesting every bit of ground. However, the Boers and the English split over the English restricting the Boers from seizing native and Zulu land (which the Zulus had seized just like the Boers). The Boer War resulted, and to this day the Zulus and the native Black tribes are more comfortable with the South Africans of English extraction than those who are in the Boer community.
It was the beginning of the Zulu War.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. The Zulu had inflicted a defeat on the British commander’s headquarters in South Africa. Some of the British Clerics had morally sided with the Zulu in the conflict. The son of Napoleon BonaparteII and the last of the line was fighting with the British and had been killed.
“Kaffers” were the Blacks that Migrated to South Africa from the north.
