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62 relations: Afrikaner nationalism, Afrikaners, Andries Pretorius, Apartheid, Assegai, Battle of Isandlwana, Battle of Italeni, Battle of Maqongqo, Battle of Rorke's Drift, Biggar family, Blood River, Buffalo River (KwaZulu-Natal), Cannon, Carronade, Coert Steynberg, Danskraal, Day of Reconciliation, Day of the Vow, Defile (geography), Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Durban, Edenvale, Gauteng, Eshowe, George McCall Theal, Grapeshot, Great Trek, Gun carriage, Hendrik Potgieter, Hermann Giliomee, Huisgenoot, Impi, Jacob Zuma, Kaffir (racial term), Kambula, KwaZulu-Natal, List of battles 1801–1900, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Military history of South Africa, Minister of Home Affairs (South Africa), Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Musket, Natalia Republic, Ndlela kaSompisi, Northern Ndebele people, Piet Retief, Piet Retief Delegation massacre, Pietermaritzburg, Prime minister, Routledge, Sarel Cilliers, ..., Shaka, South Africa, UMgungundlovu, United Kingdom, Voortrekker Monument, Voortrekkers, Wagon fort, Weenen massacre, White Umfolozi River, Zulu Kingdom, Zulu people, Zulu royal family. Expand index (12 more) »
Afrikaner nationalism
Afrikaner nationalism is a political ideology that was born in the late nineteenth century among Afrikaners in South Africa.
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Afrikaners
Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Andries Pretorius
Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius (27 November 179823 July 1853) was a leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic, as well as the earlier but short-lived Natalia Republic, in present-day South Africa.
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Apartheid
Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.
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Assegai
An assegai or assagai (Latin hasta, cf Arabic az-zaġāyah, Berber zaġāya "spear", Old French azagaie, Spanish azagaya, Italian zagaglia, Chaucer lancegay) is a pole weapon used for throwing, usually a light spear or javelin made of wood and pointed with iron or fire-hardened tip.
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Battle of Isandlwana
The Battle of Isandlwana (alternative spelling: Isandhlwana) on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.
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Battle of Italeni
The Battle of Italeni was a battle that took place at in what is now KwaZulu Natal province, South Africa, between the Voortrekkers and the Zulus during the period of the Great Trek.
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Battle of Maqongqo
The Battle of Maqongqo was fought on 29 January 1840 during a civil war between Zulu factions.
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Battle of Rorke's Drift
The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War.
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Biggar family
The Biggar family, Alexander Harvey Biggar (29 October 1781 – 27 December 1838) and his two sons Robert (12 September 1813 – 17 April 1838) and George (20 February 1820 – 17 February 1838), were pioneer traders at Port Natal, in what was to become the Colony of Natal.
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Blood River
Blood River (Bloedrivier; Ncome) is situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Buffalo River (KwaZulu-Natal)
The Buffalo River (uMzinyathi; Buffelsrivier) is the largest tributary of the Tugela River in South Africa.
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Cannon
A cannon (plural: cannon or cannons) is a type of gun classified as artillery that launches a projectile using propellant.
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Carronade
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy and first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK.
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Coert Steynberg
Coert Steynberg (7 January 1905 – 28 July 1982) was a renowned South African sculptor who worked in stone, marble, bronze, copper and wood.
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Danskraal
Danskraal is a historic site some 5 km north-east of Ladysmith in the former Kliprivier district, said to be the place where the Voortrekkers camped a week before the famous Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838 and where the first vow was taken which led to the Day of the Covenant.
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Day of Reconciliation
The Day of Reconciliation is a public holiday in South Africa held annually on 16 December.
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Day of the Vow
The Day of the Vow (Geloftedag or Dingaansdag) is the name of a religious public holiday in South Africa until 1994, when it was renamed the Day of Reconciliation.
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Defile (geography)
In geography, a defile is a narrow pass or gorge between mountains or hills.
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Dingane kaSenzangakhona
Dingane kaSenzangakhona Zulu (ca. 1795–1840)—commonly referred to as Dingane or Dingaan—was a Zulu chief who became king of the Zulu Kingdom in 1828.
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Durban
Durban (eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay/lagoon") is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third most populous in South Africa after Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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Edenvale, Gauteng
Edenvale is a town on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa.
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Eshowe
Eshowe is the oldest town of European settlement in Zululand.
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George McCall Theal
George McCall Theal (11 April 1837, Saint John, New Brunswick – 17 April 1919, Wynberg, Cape Town), was the most prolific and influential South African historian, archivist and genealogist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Grapeshot
In artillery, grapeshot is a type of shot that is not one solid element, but a mass of small metal balls or slugs packed tightly into a canvas bag.
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Great Trek
The Great Trek (Die Groot Trek; De Grote Trek) was an eastward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers (called Voortrekkers) who travelled by wagons from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration.
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Gun carriage
A gun carriage is a frame and mount that supports the gun barrel of an artillery piece, allowing it to be manoeuvred and fired.
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Hendrik Potgieter
Andries Hendrik Potgieter, known as Hendrik Potgieter (19 December 1792 – 16 December 1852) was a Voortrekker leader and the last known Champion of the Potgieter family.
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Hermann Giliomee
Hermann Giliomee is an author of historical and political studies, former Professor of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town (1983–2002), President of the South African Institute of Race Relations (1995–1997) and Extraordinary Professor of History at the Stellenbosch University.
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Huisgenoot
Huisgenoot (Afrikaans for House Companion) is a weekly Afrikaans-language general interest family magazine.
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Impi
Impi is a Zulu word for any armed body of men.
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Jacob Zuma
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth President of South Africa from the 2009 general election until his resignation on 14 February 2018.
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Kaffir (racial term)
Kaffir (alternatively kaffer; originally cafri) is an ethnic slur used to refer to a black person.
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Kambula
Kambula, Khambula or (Zulu Nkambule) is a town located at in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa.
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KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged.
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List of battles 1801–1900
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Mangosuthu Buthelezi (born 27 August 1928) is a South African politician and Zulu tribal leader who founded the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in 1975 and was Chief Minister of the KwaZulu bantustan until 1994.
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Military history of South Africa
The military history of South Africa chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time.
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Minister of Home Affairs (South Africa)
The Minister of Home Affairs is the minister in the Cabinet of South Africa with responsibility for the Department of Home Affairs.
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Mpande kaSenzangakhona
Mpande (1798–1872) was monarch of the Zulu Kingdom from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king.
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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun that appeared in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor.
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Natalia Republic
The Natalia Republic was a short-lived Boer republic on the coast of Southern Africa, established in 1839 by Voortrekkers shortly after the Battle of Blood River.
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Ndlela kaSompisi
Ndlela kaSompisi (died February 1840) was a key general to Zulu Kings Shaka and Dingane.
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Northern Ndebele people
The Northern Ndebele people (amaNdebele) are a Bantu nation and ethnic group in Southern Africa, who share a common Ndebele culture and Ndebele language.
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Piet Retief
Pieter Mauritz Retief (12 November 1780 – 6 February 1838) was a Voortrekker leader.
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Piet Retief Delegation massacre
The Piet Retief Delegation massacre occurred when Voortrekkers under Piet Retief migrated into Natal in 1837 and negotiated a land treaty in February 1838 with the Zulu King Dingane.
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Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg (Zulu: umGungundlovu) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Prime minister
A prime minister is the head of a cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Sarel Cilliers
Charl (Sarel) Arnoldus Cilliers (7 September 1801 – 4 October 1871) was a Voortrekker leader and a preacher.
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Shaka
Shaka kaSenzangakhona (c. 1787 – 22 September 1828), also known as Shaka Zulu, was one of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu Kingdom.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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UMgungundlovu
uMgungundlovu was the royal capital of the Zulu king Dingane (1828–1840) and one of several military complexes (amakhanda) which he maintained.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Voortrekker Monument
The Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa.
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Voortrekkers
The Voortrekkers (Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, or "pathfinders" or "fore-trekkers") were Boer pastoralists from the frontiers of the Cape Colony who migrated eastwards during the Great Trek.
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Wagon fort
A wagon fort is a mobile fortification made of wagons arranged into a rectangle, a circle or other shape and possibly joined with each other, an improvised military camp.
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Weenen massacre
The Weenen Massacre (Bloukransmoorde) was the massacre of Voortrekkers by the Zulu on 17 February 1838.
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White Umfolozi River
The White Umfolozi River originates just west of Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and has a confluence with the Black Umfolozi River at to form the Umfolozi River, which flows eastward towards the Indian Ocean.
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Zulu Kingdom
The Kingdom of Zulu, sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or the Kingdom of Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to Pongola River in the north.
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Zulu people
The Zulu (amaZulu) are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in South Africa, with an estimated 10–12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Zulu royal family
The Zulu royal family consists of the reigning monarch of the Zulus of South Africa, King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, his consorts, legitimate descendants, near relatives and male-line descendants of his great-grandfather, King Mpande who, as a half-brother of the Zulu Pater Patriae, King Shaka, reigned from 1840 to 1872.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blood_River
