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	Shaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaka was probably the first son of the chieftain Senzangakhona and Nandi, a daughter of a past chief of the Langeni tribe, born near present-day Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal Province.
		Shaka is often said to have been dissatisfied with the long throwing assegai, and credited with introducing a new weapon—the Iklwa, a short stabbing spear, with a long, swordlike spearhead.
		Shaka is also supposed to have introduced a larger, heavier shield made of cowhide and to have taught each warrior how to use the shield's left side to hook the enemy's shield to the right, exposing his ribs for a fatal spear stab.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shaka_Zulu (2429 words)

	Zulu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaka Zulu was the illegitimate son of Senzangakona, chief of the Zulus.
		Shaka fought as a warrior under Dingiswayo, chief of the Mthethwa.
		Zulu music incorporates rhythm, melody and harmony — the latter is usually dominant and known as "isigubudu" (which can be translated as converging horns on a beast, with tips touching the animal, a spiralling inward that reflects inner feelings).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zulu (952 words)

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		Shaka's mother was a child of a deceased chieftain of the eLangeni clan and her name was Nandi.
		Shaka's father was a chieftain of the small, then unknown Zulu clan and his name was Senzangakona.
		During this visit, Shaka was stabbed by enemy clans and was treated by the Europeans.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/Africa/ShakaZulu.html (866 words)

	Shaka -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shaka also introduced a larger, heavier (A protective covering or structure) shield made of cowhide and taught each warrior how to use the shield's left side to hook the enemy's shield to the right, exposing his (Support resembling the rib of an animal) ribs for a fatal spear stab.
		Shaka's (The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war) strategy in employing his tactics was simple.
		Shaka's name was derived from the Zulu word iShaka - an intestinal beetle on which menstrual irregularities were usually blamed - as (Click link for more info and facts about Nandi) Nandi was said to be suffering from this because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shaka.htm (1788 words)

	Shaka Zulu
		Shaka, king of the Zulus, devised innovative tactics and weapons to establish nineteenth-century Zulu dominance of Africa and increase his control over a population that began at 1,500 and grew to more than 250,000.
		Shaka's illegitimate birth in about 1787 to a Zulu chief and a woman of a lower-class clan led to his harsh treatment as an outcast, perhaps the root of his own future ruthlessness.
		In 1818, Shaka, thirty-one, was attempting to move to support his mentor Dingiswayo in battle against the Ndwandwa when he became engaged at the Battle of Gqokli Hill, causing him to fight one of the few defensive engagements of his career.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /military/shaka.html (1010 words)

	DVD Times - Shaka Zulu
		Shaka Zulu is one of the most famous South African's to ever have lived - born to a young woman named Nandi, he was the illegitimate son of Senzangakona who ruled the Elangeni tribe.
		Soon after Shaka's birth his parents separated and Nandi took her two sons back to her Zulu tribe, where she and her children were tormented everyday resulting in Shaka developing a strong hatred for those who opposed him and his family.
		The Zulu never recorded history on paper for they didn't have the means to and in later years white historians had taken on the assumption that the Zulu people were barbaric, forgoing what it was that made them the people they were and practically ignoring the traditions of the people in their own ignorant way.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=11897 (3202 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource
		Warrior-king of the Zulu, Shaka was born in 1787 to Senzangakona, a Zulu chieftain, and Nandi, an orphaned princess of the Langeni clan.
		Shaka unified many tribes of the South African region and his efforts are directly credited with saving that region from European domination during his life-time.
		Shaka met with a violent death at the age of forty-two at the hands of his half-brothers.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/men/shaka.htm (356 words)

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		Shaka hated living with his mother’s family, they were treated as outcasts and he continuously suffered the cruel, taunting of the other children who referred to him as "the fatherless one." The family were forced to move around from clan to clan until they found a degree of acceptance by the Mtetwa tribe.
		Shaka set to building a mighty new kraal, it was called Bulawayo, "the place of killing." Nandi was brought to live there in a sumptuous royal kraal of her own.
		Shaka may have been an unpredictable and bloodthirsty tyrant but he increased the power and glory of his tribe and will always hold an important place in the history of both the Zulu’s and South Africa.
	www.johnnyclegg.com /shaka.htm (726 words)

	9 Zulu and Shaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shaka was implacable; he would force his men to run through thorns and anyone who showed any hesitation or even reactions to pain would be killed for being a weakling and a coward.
		Shaka especially was arbitrary and unpredictable; however, an army trained to a peak of violence may need a heavy hand to keep it from running amok.
		Shaka was frequently accepted as the norm; Shaka was almost a complete despot ruling in arbitrary fashion; executions were frequent and often capricious; he ruled through fear and terror.
	husky1.stmarys.ca /~wmills/course316/9Zulu_Shaka.html (11559 words)

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		Yet among African groups, too, Shaka was the subject of fervent mythologising, cast either in the mould of a heroic warrior of almost classical proportions, or as a ruthless tyrant and oppressor.
		Shaka has come down to us as a glowering stereotype, frozen in time on the misty hill-sides of a long-vanished Zululand, clutching his fabled stabbing spear and great hide war-shield, the very embodiment of every European concept of the ultimate African warrior-king.
		Shaka's mother, Nandi, was betrothed to his father at the time she fell pregnant, but not yet married.
	www.kwazulu.co.uk /shaka.html (1496 words)

	Shaka
		Shaka's strategy in employing his buffalo tactics was simple.
		Half a century after Shaka's death, the Zulu nation still employed his buffalo formation to defeat their enemies and repel invaders, reinforcing Shaka's reputation as one of modern Africa's most influential military leaders.
		Although Shaka made preliminary contacts with Europeans from the British Empire, he was killed by his half-brother and successor Dingane with help from another half-brother Mahlangane before he could test his strategic brilliance against an army equipped with flintlock muskets.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shaka.html (1409 words)

	Shaka Zulu
		Today the Zulus are a nation of Nguni-speaking people in KwaZulu/Natal province, South Africa, a branch of the southern Bantu with close ethnic, linguistic, and cultural ties with the Swazi and Xhosa.
		Before they joined with the neighboring Natal Nguni (see Nguni) under their leader Shaka in the early 19th century to form a Zulu empire, the Zulu were only one of many Nguni clans; Shaka gave the clan name to the new nation.
		Shaka seems increasingly to lose touch with reality and practically orders his clan to death by starvation in reverence to his mother.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/shaka.html (643 words)

	Shaka Zulu
		Shaka came from a humble and harsh childhood to become the founder of the Zulu nation.
		Shaka was given his own regiment the iziCwe Shaka reformed his regiment discarding the light thrown spear for a short broad bladed stabbing spear (assagai) and a larger cow hide shield which gave his troops the fighting style of a Roman legion.
		Shaka took the Zulu throne in 1816 when his father died and raised many more regiments according to age group and ability and made them live in celibacy (although his was unable to father children and possibly a homosexual).
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/people_shaka_zulu.html (633 words)

	Be Aware - Shaka Zulu
		When he was born Nandi took Shaka back to Langeni with her, but around 1802, she was driven from the Langeni along with her son and found shelter with a sub-clan of the Mtetwa, the Dletsheni.
		Shaka thought this method was cowardly and designed a short-handled spear called an assegai for use as a stabbing weapon.
		Unfortunately, Shaka met with a violent death at the age of 42 when he was repeatedly stabbed to death by his half-brothers.
	www.daintycrew.com /zulu.htm (487 words)

	Shaka Zulu
		Shaka Zulu was embittered towards his father who was a Zulu King due to his harsh treatment of his mother, sister, and grandmother and it is Shaka's quest to bring him to justice and to take over as King.
		Zulu King Shaka, king of the Zulus, devised innovative tactics and weapons to establish nineteenth-century Zulu dominance of Africa and increase his control over a population that began at 1,500 and...
		Shaka Zulu and the Zulu Kingdom - Brief History of South Africa: King Shaka and the Zulu Kingdom in the 18th century.
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /6303274714/Shaka_Zulu.html (1142 words)

	Zululand EcoAdventures - Shaka Zulu. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shaka Zulu was the first and illegitimate son of the chieftain Senzangakona and Nandi, a daughter of a past chief of the Langeni tribe.
		Shaka Zulu's troops practiced by covering more than fifty miles in a fast trot over hot, rocky terrain in a single day so that they could surprise the enemy.
		Shaka Zulu's name was derived from the Zulu word iShaka - an intestinal beetle on which menstrual irregularities were usually blamed - as Nandi was said to be suffering from this because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
	www.eshowe.com /article/articlestatic/55/1/18 (1622 words)

	Zulu People shaka zulu king zulu nation south african zulu tribe zulu girls zulu kings senzangakhona kwazulu natal
		Zulu people are best known for their culture, their beliefs, their traditional wear and most of the battles fought in the past especially the Isandlwana battle between them and the British in1879.
		A Zulu king is always succeeded by his elder son in a clan, this is the reason why Kings had many wives so that their legacy can continue, when the ninth noted King of kwaZulu, Senzangakhona kaJama who also succeeded his father Jama kaNdaba died.
		Shaka Zulu went to take the kingdom by force because he was the elder third son to Senzangakhona and Nandi kaBebe.
	www.zulu-culture-history.com (595 words)

	Who is Shaka Zulu?
		Shaka, king of the Zulus and his warriors, called "impis" were invincible.
		Shaka Zulu won the battles and was king of all the territories in Natal and Southeast Africa in 1820.
		Shaka was demented with grief and ordered a few thousand people executed in memory of his mother.
	msms.essortment.com /whoisshakazul_rrgj.htm (681 words)

	Shaka Zulu
		Shaka Zulu was a fierce warrior, brilliant military strategist, Leader expecting complete fearlessness from his warriors, and a murderous ruler.
		The constant wars Shaka engaged in and the arbitrary executions eventually led to his downfall, when he was stabbed to death by a half-brother.
		Shaka took advantage of the resulting confusion called Mfecane, or “time of troubles.” Absorbing the Mthethwa into his Zulu army, Shaka defeated the Ndwandwe and successfully absorbed his enemies into his army or slaughtered them.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b1zulushaka.htm (734 words)

	Shaka Zulu and the Zulu Kingdom - Brief History of South Africa
		Eventually Shaka was assassinated by his half-brother Dingane in 1828.
		Shaka was the illegitimate son of the Zulu chief Senzangakhona and the young girl Nandi, a member of the Langeni clan.
		At the beginning of the 19th century, Shaka had created the most powerful kingdom in the whole of southern Africa.
	www.southafrica-travel.net /history/eh_zulu.htm (308 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Shaka Zulu (1983)
		High marks should be accorded to Shaka Zulu for attempting to tell the story from the perspective of the Zulus in a reasonably realistic and captivating style.
		The man who to become King Shaka of the Zulu was born in the late 18th century to Nandi (Dudu Mkhize), the daughter of a chieftain and the chieftain of the Zulu clan, Senzagakon (Conrad Magwaza).
		Dudu Mikhize and Conrad Magwaza are both excellent in their portrayal of Shaka's parents; Magwaza shines in the flashback sequences to a simpler time among the tribes, and his courtship sequences with Nandi are lovely, even though the politics of their tribes cause serious problems later when she is pregnant.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4370 (1331 words)

	Biographies of Famous South Africans - Shaka Zulu
		Shaka was born circa 1787, son of a minor Zulu chief, but his mother was an unranked woman, and Shaka was a humiliated and discredited child.
		When the Zulu leader was murdered by a rival clan, Shaka assumed the throne.
		After 10 years of unrelenting warfare that placed incredible strains on the Zulu nation, Shaka, always psychologically unstable and obsessively worried about being replaced by an heir, finally snapped into derangement after the death of his mother in 1828.
	zar.co.za /shaka.htm (485 words)

	Zululand EcoAdventures - Shaka Zulu.Celebration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The King Shaka Day Celebrations were being held at Dukuza (Formerly Stanger) on the KZN north coast on Saturday 24th September.These celebrations honouring King, Shaka Zulu (b.
		Shaka Zulu, son of Nandi and Senzangakhona was born in Melmoth around 1788 into the Mhlongo tribe who were under the rule of Chief Dingiswayo kaMthethwa, the most influential ruler in the area.
		Though Shaka Zulu did not belong to the Mthethwa people, he won the favour of the chief through his exceptional skills as a young warrior.
	www.eshowe.com /article/articleview/29?PrintableVersion=enabled (1657 words)

	Encyclopedia: Shaka Zulu
		On the death of Senzangakona, Dingiswayo aided Shaka to defeat his brother and assume leadership in 1816.
		He requested that they design him a new weapon - the Iklwa, a short stabbing spear, with a long, swordlike spearhead.
		The Zulu bloodline succession was ensured by his half-brother Mpande and the induna Ndlela kaSompisi.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shaka-Zulu (1552 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Shaka Zulu: Comp Epic Mini-Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shaka Zulu begins following a British expedition sent to bargain with the fearsome Zulu army assembling on the outer edges of the British colonies in South Africa.
		At this point, the focus shifts to how Shaka (the riveting Henry Cele), king of the Zulus, rose from a brutal childhood to royal grandeur--a semi-mythological tale filled with family strife, political intrigue, witchcraft, and bloody warfare.
		It also covers the effects Shaka had on the way wars were fought, on the way people were encouraged, and on the impressive way that one man's mind functioned.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JDQO (1334 words)

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