Isandlwana

As the schoolgirl lifts her head from her economics homework, winter winds swirl round her village – a collection of Zulu huts in the hills of Isandlwana, once a battleground of the Anglo-Zulu wars.

On the road to learning 2011

A member of the Isandlwana community, widow and mother of three, she encourages her girls to not only complete school but continue to university.

A parent's duty 2011

The British commander, Frederic Thesiger, Lord Chelmsford, sent a message demanding that the Zulu king surrender the artillery pieces and roughly one thousand rifles that his fighters had captured after a stinging defeat of the British earlier in the year at Isandlwana.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Navy frigate, SAS Isandlwana, and two submarines, the SAS Chalotte

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

Isandlwana was one battle among many - Rhini in the east, Thaba Bosigo in Lesotho, Ga-Sekhukhuni and Tshitandani in the north, Vegkop; and here, too, in the Cape Peninsula where we gather today - some won and some lost, as our forebears took up the cudgels despite being out-gunned, to defend their land, their dignity and their freedom.

Speech by Nkosi Mwelo Nonkonyana during the debate on the Provincial & Local Government budget vote 2008

The battle of Isandlwana hand just been fought and amabutho defeated an army fearful and revered through the war.

Speech by Nkosi Mwelo Nonkonyana during the debate on the Provincial & Local Government budget vote 2008

In my story, iKlawa, I switch the places of Cetshwayo and Dinuzulu during the battle of Isandlwana because I need Cetshwayo at the battle for the resolution of certain conflicts.

John Joseph Adams » The Slush God Speaketh…to Donald Mead 2006

Isandlwana, SAS Spioenkop, and the SAS Mendi - at a total cost of about EU500 million.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

However, one could venture that, for an Army that brought us the Battle of Isandlwana, William Elphinstone's retreat from Kabul in 1842, Galipoli and the fall of Singapore - to say nothing of Market Garden - the slaughter of a few Toms in unarmoured Land Rovers is neither here nor there.

Archive 2007-01-01 Richard 2007

"Though undeniably heroic, the importance of the defence of Rorke's Drift was grossly exaggerated by both the generals and politicians of the period, to diminish the impact of [the earlier massacre at] Isandlwana".

Seasonal movies: some background Ray Girvan 2005