I'm going to you on a trip of about 1,200 kilometers around the Zulu Nation. Everywhere there were empty skulls of a people driven off their land. Farm homes without windows, windows without curtains, gardens overgrown and dying, staff quarters empty and lifeless. Old farm equipment, rusting in the broken down shed, hungry cattle alone, because there parents had to be slaughter to produce poultry. Vultures having a feast day, like it is thanksgiving. The greatest Zulu leader in history, Shaka Zulu, often known as the Napoleon of African history, was responsible.
Long ago, in 1789, in the rolling green hills of Zululand, a Zulu woman called Nandi gave birth to an unwanted child named Shaka Zulu. The name Shaka means parasite or simply bastard. (Fisher) The child's father, Senzangakona, from the clan of Zulu, wanted nothing to do with them, because tribal elders sent a message to Nandi saying "the girl has a beetle in her belly". When Shaka was six years old he allowed a dog to kill......
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