Dinuzulu

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Photo by Dinuzulu, ca.1883

Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (* 1868 ; † October 18, 1913 in the Transvaal ; often referred to as Dinizulu ) was King of the Zulu .

Royalty

He ascended the throne on May 21, 1884 after the death of his father Cetshwayo and after the civil war . At this point the Zulu Empire was no longer a sovereign state after its defeat by English colonial troops in the Zulu War in 1879 . Garnet Wolseley had divided Zululand into 13 territories and appointed a chief for each . After the victory over Zibhebhu and the enthronement of Dinuzulus, Zululand became a British protectorate .

Shortly after the establishment of the protectorate over Zululand in 1887, Dinuzulu took the lead in an uprising that was quickly put down by the British.

Prison on St. Helena

Dinuzulu was exiled to the island of St. Helena , but was able to return to his homeland in 1896. After the last Zulu uprising was put down in 1906, Dinuzulu was accused of being involved in the riot. He was sentenced to four years of forced labor and subsequent deportation and died in Transvaal in 1913. He was succeeded by his son Solomon (1891-1933), who was born while Dinuzulus was imprisoned on St. Helena.

Treaty with the Germans

In November 1884, the German traveler August Einwald signed a contract with Dinuzulu on behalf of the businessman Adolf Lüderitz , which was intended to secure a colonial claim to the territory of Santa Lucia Bay for the German Empire . In the course of a compromise with Great Britain, the German Empire finally dropped the claim in May 1885, as the British invoked a contract with Chief Mpande that had already been concluded in 1843 .

Woodbadge

Wood badge with diamond knot

The name Dinuzulu is associated with the history of the scouting movement. In the tent of the expelled Zulu king, the British officer and founder of the boy scout movement Robert Baden-Powell had found a decorative chain made of acacia wood - probably the king's chain. In 1919, in the first training camp for Scoutmaster, he awarded the participants carved blocks from this chain as recognition. Under the name Woodbadge , imitations of these blocks are still among the international badges of the world scout movement for group leaders who have completed appropriate training. Baden-Powell lent the last blocks of the chain to a grandson Dinuzulus, who himself had become a boy scout.

Others

Web links

Commons : Dinuzulu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

See also Trivia:

Wikisource: The King of Zululand and his Crocodile Order  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A royal coronation in Africa . Chapter in Adolf Schiel : 23 years of storms and sunshine in South Africa . FA Brockhaus publishing house, Leipzig 1902.
  2. ^ Henriette Coloso: Dinuzulu - The Death of the House of Shaka. Reprint, British Library, Historical Print Editions, London 2011.
  3. ^ W. Schüßler: Kolonialgeschichte , in: Annual reports for German history . Edited by Albert Brackmann u. Fritz Hartung. Leipzig: Koehler. Born in 1937–1939. Vol. XXI, pp. 700f .; made available by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
  4. ↑ Santa Lucīa , in: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 17, Leipzig 1909, p. 587.
  5. ↑ Team handbook on the history of the Woodbadge
personal data
SURNAME Dinuzulu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo; Dinizulu (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of the Zulu Empire
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1913
Place of death Transvaal