Nearly 80 Zulu warriors wearing armbands of white goat fur and loinclothes of antelope tails race down the battlefield of Isandlwana screaming and slapping their wooden clubs against their cowhide ...

On January 22nd and 23rd, 1879, fewer than 150 British soldiers defended the mission station at Rorke's Drift against a much ...

The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 - in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men - became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not inevitable.

Every year on 22 January, the quiet hills of Isandlwana take us back to a day that changed history, not just for Zululand, but for the world. In 1879, the British Empire was at the height of its power ...

Trying to colonise an unwilling people rarely goes well. Not surprisingly, the colonial era is filled with conflicts and battles, some of which wound up having greater historical implications other ...

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 ...

On January 22nd, 1879, Zulu tribesmen slaughtered British forces at the Battle of Isandlwana, in present-day South Africa.Zulu Dawn, a 1979 film that dramatizes the events, stars Peter O’Toole and ...

Pietermaritzburg - One of the most dramatic episodes of South African history will come to life at this year's on-site re-enactment of the Battle of Isandlwana on Saturday, January 18. Now a fixture ...

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 ...

The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 - in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men - became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not inevitable.

The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 - in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men - became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not inevitable.