Zulu in a sentence

Traditional Zulu praise song, English translation by Ezekiel Mphahlele Other Zulu sources are sometimes critical of Shaka, and numerous negative images abound in Zulu oral history.

King of the Zulu nation, Misuzulu Zulu (L), Prime Minister Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi (C) and Jacob Zuma (R) attend the reenactment of the Battle of Isandlwana on 21 January 2023.

Maybe Zulu was right but because he preempted it HH decided not to dissolve parliament and for disturbing the program Zulu has been arrested.

In the Zulu War of 1879 he was present at the Battle of Ulundi – the last major battle of the Anglo Zulu war.

His best-known work is probably Lalela Zulu (Listen to Things Zulu), written for the King’s Singers in 1977, performed by them internationally and recorded in 1998.

Photo: The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.

Against the Boers at Blood River, massed gunfire broke the back of the Zulu assault, and the Boers were later able to mount a cavalry sweep in counterattack that became a turkey shoot against fleeing Zulu remnants.

General histories of Southern Africa are also valuable including Noel Mostert's "Frontiers" and a detailed account of the results from the Zulu expansion, J. D. Omer-Cooper's "The Zulu Aftermath", which advances the traditional Mfecane theory.

However, in English it is often used to refer to a Zulu regiment, which is called an ibutho in Zulu.

Indeed, the Zulu attacks on the British strongpoints at Rorke's Drift and at Kambula, (both bloody defeats) seemed to have been carried out by over-enthusiastic leaders and warriors despite contrary orders of the Zulu King, Cetshwayo.

Somhlolo was a strategic leader between 1815 and 1839 a period including the mfecane period of Shaka Zulu a Zulu illegitimate child of Senzangakhona who created his kingdom from the Mtetwa polity established by Dingiswayo.

The Zulu forces were generally grouped into three levels: regiments, corps of several regiments, and "armies" or bigger formations, although the Zulu did not use these terms in the modern sense.

The Zulu Kingdom (1817–79) was a Southern African tribal state in what is now Kwa-Zulu Natal in southeastern South Africa.

The Zulu people formed a powerful Zulu Kingdom in 1816, one that was subsequently absorbed into the Colony of Natal in 1897.

UTC time is also known as "Zulu" time, since "Zulu" is a phonetic alphabet code word for the letter "Z".

Zulu officers often carried the Zulu Axe, but this weapon was more of a symbol to show their rank.

Also present at the courtesy call were Zambia’s Director of Sports, John Zulu and the Chief Sports Development Officer, Raphael Mulenga, and Barbados’ Director of Sports at the National Sports Council, Neil Murrell, and Youth Commissioner I, Shawn Burke.

Among the 10 Victoria Cross awardees is James Langley Dalton, the assistant commissary in Lord Chelmsford’s force during the Zulu War and one of the 11 men who were honoured with the award following the January 1879 action at Rorke’s Drift.

As Gordon called Kaizar Zulu, we aren’t surprised……he suffers from verbal diarrhoea!

Critics dubbed Buthelezi a war lord but to his legion of followers in the rural Zulu heartland, he was a visionary.