First Boer War in the open at the Battle of Isandlwana. Shortly after the main battle, a British outpost at Rorke's Drift on the Zululand-Natal border, withstood a second Zulu attack with great losses to the Zulus with the British fighting defensively in and around the stone buildings of a small trading store which had been hastily fortified. After reinforcements arrived, the British won a series of skirmishes and eventually conquered the Zulu capital at Ulundi on 4 July 1879. This war to all intents and purposes signalled the end of the independent Zulu nation. The British consolidated their power over Natal, the
The Zulu Principle a relatively short period of time she could become one of the leading authorities on that "clearly defined and narrow area of knowledge". The Zulu Principle was republished in 2008 by Harriman House, with a new preface from the author. The Zulu Principle The Zulu Principle: Making Extraordinary Profits from Ordinary Shares is an investment guide written by English accountant and investor Jim Slater, first published by Orion in 1992. Slater named his approach to investment when he observed that after reading a short article on the Zulu people in the "Reader's Digest" his wife was better informed on the