Shaka iLembe hits TV screens on 18 June. The Zulu leader has never been portrayed as a real man - hopefully this time he will be. From left to right: Neo Magagula, Ntando Zondi, Senzo Radebe, and ...

Mighty warrior: Shaka Zulu forged the various Zulu-speaking clans into one powerful empire but his actions became more tyrannical, including ordering the massacre of thousands February is Black ...

SHAKA kaSenzangakhona is universally recognised as the founder of what would become known as the “Zulu nation”. He ruled from about 1817 until he was assassinated by his half-brothers in 1828. He’s ...

Gales tore at the Mary’s sails, and surf crashed across the brig’s deck. Seventeen-year-old Nathaniel Isaacs tied himself to a railing to avoid being washed overboard. The Mary’s rudder soon ...

`Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat.” Such was the pragmatic philosophy of a despotic Zulu king and shrewd military tactician named Shaka, who, in the early 19th ...

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Dan Wylie received funding from Rhodes University when researching his books. Who was Shaka Zulu and what did you learn from writing about him? Shaka kaSenzangakhona is universally recognised as the ...