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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ian Knight still has vivid memories of his first visit to Isandlwana, where 1,300 British troops and their African allies were killed in a devastating battle with the Zulu army. It was 1979, Knight ...

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 ...

Christianity was used by the British army as a tool to invade Zulu land and break local culture before the 1879 battle of Isandlwana. This is revealed in a book by veteran journalist Nomavenda Khumalo ...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here Prince Dabulamanzi and the Battle of Isandlwana By ...

Zulus re-enact Battle of Isandlwana 144 years after victory over the British There's no such thing as a free lunch - and that's also true in the world of personal finance. However, there are ways to ...

chapter 1 Before the Dawn, 22 January 1879 -- chapter 2 Early Hours -- chapter 3 Late Morning -- Interlude `Gentlemen in England now abed ...' -- chapter 4 High Noon -- chapter 5 Afternoon -- chapter ...

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 ...