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Zulu language
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...Zulu language: see African languages....
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Zululand
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......reserves. Although some corn is grown, the Zulu economy depends primarily on cattle...constitute the majority of the population, and Zulu is the chief language. Many Zulus still...of South Africa has, however, weakened Zulu society. The name Zulu originally denoted......
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Lesotho
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......the official languages of the kingdom; Zulu and Xhosa are also spoken. EconomyAll...those that came to be the Sotho and the Zulu. The Sotho are made up of remnants of...disturbances accompanying the rise of the Zulu (1816–30). They were rallied c.1820......
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Ulundi
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...Ulundi (ōōlōōn´dē) [Zulu,=the high place], town, part...tobacco, and lumber. Ulundi became the Zulu capital in 1873 when, shortly after...site of the final battle of the Anglo-Zulu war, a defeat that resulted in the slaughter......
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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......everyday concerns, are sung mostly in Zulu, but also in English or Sotho. Their...next album, the Grammy-winning Shaka Zulu (1987). Later releases include Two Worlds...appeared in the drama The Song of Jacob Zulu (1993) and the musical Nomathembe (1995......
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Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha
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......1928–, South African political leader. A Zulu chief, he served as chief minister...Congress (ANC), Buthelezi revived Inkatha, a Zulu cultural group, in 1975 as an antiapartheid and Zulu nationalist organization; it later became the......
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Frere, Sir Henry Bartle Edward
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......had to cope with Boer discontent in the newly annexed Transvaal and with Zulu unrest. Intent on breaking the military power of the Zulus, he precipitated (1878) the Zulu War. His action was disapproved in London, and although he was popular......
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Bantu
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......there are almost a hundred Bantu languages, including Luganda, Zulu, and Swahili. Few cultural generalizations concerning the...Bantu states developed in the 19th cent., notably among the Zulu and the Sotho. Other well-known Bantu tribes include the Ndebele......
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Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield
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......annexation of the Fiji islands (1874) and of the Transvaal (1877), the war against the Afghans (1878–79), and the Zulu War of 1879 proclaimed England a world imperial power more clearly than before. So did Queen Victoria's assumption (1876......
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Bantu languages
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......trade language of E Africa, it is understood by perhaps an additional 20 million. Other significant Bantu languages include Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, and Setswana, which are spoken respectively by 9 million, 7 million, 5 million, and 4 million persons......