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The Zulu Kingdom (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo; Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or the Kingdom of Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa.During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in ...
Zulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, where it is an official language. More than half of the South African population can understand it, with over 13.78 million first-language and over 15 million second-language speakers. [10] Many Zulu people also speak Xitsonga, Sesotho and others from among South Africa's 12 official ...
KwaZulu-Natal ( / kwɑːˌzuːluː nəˈtɑːl /, also referred to as KZN; nicknamed "the garden province") [5] is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province . It is located in the southeast of the country, with a long shoreline on ...
KwaZulu. Location of KwaZulu (red) within South Africa (yellow). KwaZulu was a semi-independent bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government as a homeland for the Zulu people. The capital was moved from Nongoma to Ulundi in 1980. It was led until its abolition in 1994 by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and head of Inkatha, who ...
Description. Map of South Africa with Zululand highlighted (2011).svg. English: Map of district boundaries in South Africa, as they will be after the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, with the Zululand District Municipality highlighted in red within KwaZulu-Natal in yellow. Date.
PO box. 3815. Area code. 035. Eshowe is the oldest town of European settlement in Zululand, [citation needed] historically also known as Eziqwaqweni, Ekowe or kwaMondi. Eshowe's name is said to be inspired by the sound of wind blowing through the more than 4 km 2 of the indigenous Dlinza Forest, the most important and striking feature of the town.
Ceza, KwaZulu-Natal. / -27.986; 31.374. Ceza is a town in Zululand District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa . Ceza Hospital is located in this town. [2] It was founded as a mission clinic in 1910. The first doctor arrived in 1938. By the late 1950s there were 135 beds, a school for nurses, and several doctors.
South Africa. The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as one of its provinces. [3]