Nearly 80 Zulu warriors wearing armbands of white goat fur and loinclothes of antelope tails race down the battlefield of Isandlwana screaming and slapping their wooden clubs against their cowhide ...

Zulu Dawn’ is a 1979 historical epic that dramatises the events surrounding the catastrophic British defeat at the hands of the Zulu at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22nd January 1879, exactly a century ...

The 146th anniversary of the Battle of Isandlwana, a pivotal moment in African and British colonial history, was commemorated last week with a re-enactment in KwaZulu-Natal. Participants, including ...

The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 - in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men - became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not inevitable.

Trying to colonise an unwilling people rarely goes well. Not surprisingly, the colonial era is filled with conflicts and battles, some of which wound up having greater historical implications other ...

A little less than three years after George Armstrong Custer’s “Last Stand” in the battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana, a British army suffered a similar fate in Africa. Just as the United States ...

Every year on 22 January, the quiet hills of Isandlwana take us back to a day that changed history, not just for Zululand, but for the world. In 1879, the British Empire was at the height of its power ...

Isandlwana Lodge overlooks the iconic battlefield. Image: Facebook, Isandlwana Lodge. The story of Isandlwana Lodge started in 1996 with a chance meeting of two American women, Maggie Bryant and Patt ...

Thousands of Zulu men, called "amabutho", participate in a reenactment of the battle of Isandlwana. The battle was the first engagement in the Anglo-Zulu war on the 22 of January 1879 and was the ...

The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 - in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men - became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not inevitable.

The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 - in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men - became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not inevitable.