On January 22nd, 1879, Zulu tribesmen slaughtered British forces at the Battle of Isandlwana, in present-day South Africa.Zulu Dawn, a 1979 film that dramatizes the events, stars Peter O’Toole and ...

A series of cultural, historical and commemorative events have been scheduled ahead of the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Isandlwana, which will be observed on January 22 in Nquthu, northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Senzo Mchunu has hailed His Majesty for convening the most inclusive and successful commemoration of the Battle of Isandlwana. The commemoration which took place over the weekend ...

KZN Premier, Thami Ntuli, King Misuzulu KaZwelithini and dignatories at the battle of Isandlwana commemoration, January 22, 2026. Photo: KZN Dept Arts and Culture. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli, ...

The KwaZulu-Natal government has described this year’s annual Battle of Isandlwana commemoration as a rallying call for unity in addressing the province’s social challenges. This year’s event honoured ...

The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War, witnessed the worst single day's loss of British troops between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the ...

Such a racist stereotype was shattered by the Battle of Rorke’s Drift and was preceded by the defeat of Isandlwana, where the Zulus annihilated 1,700 British regulars and colonial auxiliaries at the ...

On 22 January 1879, on the slopes of a sphinx-shaped hill of Isandlwana in northern KwaZulu-Natal, the world changed forever. Armed with only shields and assegais, some 20,000 Zulu warriors took on ...