The war began with a British invasion of Zululand, and ended with almost 8,000 dead, a British victory and Zulu independence. Now, a Zulu shield from the 1879 war is being put up for auction. The rare ...

Anglo-Zulu war reenactors dressed in historic military uniforms and traditional outfits have recreated the Battle of Isandlwana 140 years later. The infamous battle, the first clash of the war more ...

On 22 January 1879, exactly 139 years ago this wekk, some 20 000 warriors of Zulu King Cetshwayo kaMpande encircled 1 774 British invaders and killed 1 329 of them within two hours of fierce ...

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 on 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War, witnessed the worst single day's loss of British troops between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the ...

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 ...

King Misuzulu kaZwelithini and the Zulu nation commemorated the Battle of Isandlwana on Saturday. The battle took place in 1879, with King Cetshwayo kaMpande’s regiment outclassing the British troops ...

The war began with a British invasion of Zululand, and ended with almost 8,000 dead, a British victory and Zulu independence. Now, a Zulu shield from the 1879 war is being put up for auction. The rare ...

The 146th anniversary of the Battle of Isandlwana, a pivotal moment in African and British colonial history, was commemorated last week with a re-enactment in KwaZulu-Natal. Participants, including ...

About 80 Zulus have been in Cardiff to take part in a re-enactment of the Battle of Isandlwana. The Anglo-Zulu War took place in 1879, provoked by the British invasion of Zululand as part of a plan to ...