South Africa Literature and Language

ngo musa

Because he comes from KwaZulu-Natal and can speak fluent Zulu.

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i dont know thats why i am asking

Shaka Zulu did not find a Cheetah, it was a leopard, you need to study your Zulu history more diligently.

Yes, two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangana, who murdered him later in 1828 when his actions became too out-of-hand.

Also Sigujana (killed to take the throne in 1816), Nomcomba (sister), Ngwate & Mpande (younger brothers)

Umvuzo

i like them.

It's family from the mongoose, if you type it in at Google images you can see what they look like.

The main food that Zulus eat consists of beer (tshwala), Zulu bread, cooked chicken feet, meat, amasi, pumpkin, cabbage, tubers and phuthu or maize meal. Meat is roasted on coals, and is often left scorched almost black on the outside and very rare on the inside (inyama eyosiwe). The Zulus drink amasi which is sour, curdled milk. Milk is hardly ever drunk fresh ('green milk'), but it is sometimes used to thin amasi which has gone too thick to be used. Maize is a popular part of the Zulu's diet. One method of preparing it is to grind it to a meal, it is then cooked into a stiff porridge (uphuthu). The Zulus also eat dry beans boiled together with maize. The most popular are kidney beans (ubhomubhomu) and sugar beans (ubhonisi). Zulu beer is known as tshwala, and is an important part of Zulu life as it is an essential part of every ceremony or feast. Sorghum is the main ingredient of beer, and all families brew their own beer

ihhala

1 teaspoon = 5ml

kuphi. That's if you say for example: Uhlala kuphi? Or you can use the suffix -phi. Like Uhlalaphi? or Uyaphi?

The 1964 film "Zulu" is about the native Zulu's attack upon British forces at Rorke's Drift in 1879 . The film starred Michael Cain and Jack Hawkins among others . It was a significant defeat of a modern British army by a indigenous/native force .

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The ancient Zulu people had spears and shields, during the time that the british were using the maxim gun.

In 1856-1857 the Xhosa people willingly killed of almost all of their cattle and their crops in the hopes that it would save their people from European control. This was prompted by a little girl's vision of a man who promised that the Xhosa would be resurrected if all the cattle was killed. Ironically, the cattle killing left the Xhosa starving and forced them to work for the Europeans, who gave them food and aid in return.

Rra is a word used to address a male person in Setswana. For example; 'Hello rra.'

I wonder if a Rondebosch grade 8 asked that?

I'm pretty sure it's 'imifino' (although that might be wild vegetables only)

Dimitri Meeks wrote a chapter titles "Locating Punt" for the book "Mysterious Lands", by David B. O'Connor and Stephen Quirke. In this chapter Meeks stated that "Texts locating Punt beyond doubt to the south are in the minority, but they are the only ones cited in the current consensus about the location of the country. Punt, we are told by the Egyptians, is situated - in relation to the Nile Valley - both to the north, in contact with the countries of the Near East of the Mediterranean area, and also to the east or south-east, while its furthest borders are far away to the south. Only the Arabian Peninsula satisfies all these indications." He points out that ancient inscriptions in the Sinai show that Punt incorporates the land of Wetjenet, which is associated with the production of turquoise. Wetjenet is also associated with the land of Fek-Heret, (fek = turquoise) which is described as being "at the height of the land of Punt". Punt thus incorporated the turquoise producing areas of the Sinai. He points out that in ancient inscriptions at Kom Ombo (in Southern Egypt) Punt is described as being "between Byblos (Lebanon) and Cyprus", and also as being in the middle of Upper Retjenou (Palestine) and Pa-Bekhen (northern Mesopotamia) and Persia, and two other points believed to refer to Babylon and Susiana, both in Mesopotamia. Dimitri Meeks concluded: "The hypothesis of an African location for the land of Punt is based on extremely fragile grounds. It is contradicted by numerous texts and has only become an established fact in Egyptology because no-one has taken into account the full range of evidence on the subject, regardless of place of of such an African hypothesis becomes self evident. The only way to reconcile all the data is to locate Punt in the Arabian peninsula. The territory of Punt began quite close to that of Egypt, once Sinai had been crossed, in Arabia Petraea or the Negev. It incorporated in a rather imprecise manner the whole coastal zone of the Red Sea down as far as present day Yemen and the actual heart of Punt probably corresponded more or less to Yemeni Tihama".

Very, very bravely. A fierce, martial nation of South Africa, their great leaders were King Chaka & later Cetchewayo. (Played in the great film Zulu by Gatcha Butelezi) That these tribesmen would destroy a modern armed column as they did at Isandlwana & fight as they did on the same day at Rorkes Drift with great military skill & bravery is testament to their determination & leadership. Principally their equipment was a hide shield & a short, stabbing spear. Tactically they used envelopment, the horns surrounding their enemy to the flanks, the enemy drawn into the loins of a bull buffalo. Isanlwana & Rorkes Drift were in 1879: The latter being conspicuous in British Military History with the award of no less thn 11 VCs in one action. One man who survived the former, one Horace Smith-Dorien went on to become a General in WW1.

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