the zulu people arrived in south africa in 1709.
the zulu people arrived in south africa in 1709.
when did the zulu people arrive in south africa?
1709
section::::british colonisation, mfecane and boer republics (1815–1910).:zulu militarism and expansionism.









































the zulu people are part of the nguni tribe and were originally a minor clan in what is today northern kwazulu-natal, founded ca. 1709 by zulu kantombela.









































the 1820s saw a time of immense upheaval relating to the military expansion of the zulu kingdom, which replaced the original african clan system with kingdoms. sotho-speakers know this period as the "difaqane" ("forced migration"); zulu-speakers call it the "mfecane" ("crushing").
history of south africa
under apartheid, the homeland of kwazulu ("kwa" meaning "place of") was created for zulu people. in 1970, the bantu homeland citizenship act provided that all zulus would become citizens of kwazulu, losing their south african citizenship. kwazulu consisted of a large number of disconnected pieces of land, in what is now kwazulu-natal. hundreds of thousands of zulu people living on privately owned "black spots" outside of kwazulu were dispossessed and forcibly moved to bantustans – worse land previously reserved for whites contiguous to existing areas of kwazulu. by 1993, approximately 5.2 million zulu people lived in kwazulu, and approximately 2 million lived in the rest of south africa. the chief minister of kwazulu, from its creation in 1970 (as zululand) was chief mangosuthu buthelezi. in 1994, kwazulu was joined with the province of natal, to form modern kwazulu-natal.
zulu people