Nobody knows how long there have been people living in the
southern part of the African mainland. Experts dates foundings of
irontools in the Swaziland to the 4th century. Sailors who were
shipwrecked outside the coast of South-Africa had contact with people who
earned their living by farming and cattlebreeding. Later on when the
Europeans arrived to South-Africa, they found a people on the east coast
of Natal who called themselves" A ma zulu". These people were tall and
very atleticly build, they could take great effort in both hunting and war
and their knowledge to the nature was incredable.
The Zulu tribe was once one of South-Africas biggest and most
powerful tribes and they managed to stand up against the British until
they lost the Zulu war in 1897. The tribes defece system was wery simmular
to the system we have in Norway today. The troops were devided into
regiments according to their age. And they got military training in
diffrent parts of the country, just as we do in Norway today.
The Zulues want to keep their tradition and identity alive, but they have
a lot to struggle against. The lack of land and the demands from the
whites way of life has disturbed their old way of living based on
cattlebreeding and farming. The majority of the Zulues today live in the
villages near by the mines and the cities where they have their work,
others work on farms owned by whites.
The zulu society has lost a lot of its stability. But one thing they
havent lost is the solidarity to their fellow tribe members, and they are
all very keen on maintaining their old cultur, inheritated threw
The Zulues are traditionally polygame. They live on farms in huts
made of grass and each and every wife has one or two of the huts, one to
sleep in an the other one for daily doings. But the women havent only got
their own cabins, they`ve got their own corn storage and their own fields
too. But snice th...