AbaQulusi (people)

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The abaQulusi or Qulusi are a Zulu tribe from South Africa , based in Abaqulusi Kwazulu-Natal .

prehistory

The aunt of King Shaka , Mkabayi kaJama, is said to be at the beginning of the foundation of the tribe. When Shaka sent her to ebaQuluseni, near today's Vryheid and Hlobane, she is said to have founded the powerful abaQulusi tribe, which played a major role in the coming wars.

During the Battle of Hlobane and the Battle of Kambula , in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 , the abaQulusi were commanded by the iNkosi Msebe kaMadaka. During the Battle of Holkrans against the Boers in 1902, the iNkosi Sikhobobho was the chief.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Ken Gillings, Discovering the Battlefields of the Anglo-Zulu War , pages 105-6
  2. ↑ abaQulusi - What's in the name? [1]
  3. ^ AbaQulusi in and around the Anglo-Boer South African War 1899-1902 [2]
  4. ^ John Laband: Scarecrow Press (ed.): Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6078-0 .

literature

  • Donald R. Morris, The washing of the spears: a history of the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka and its case in the Zulu War of 1879 , Simon & Schuster, New York, 1971
  • William Watson Race, The Epic Anglo Zulu War on Canvas , Talisman Prints, 2007
  • Adrian Greaves, Xolani Mkhize, The Tribe that Washed its Spears: The Zulu's at War , Pen and sword military, 2013, ISBN 9781848848412
  • Nicki von der Heyde, Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa , Struik, 2013