impis

On arrival at the stadium, the IFP "impis" or fighting groups were incensed to find the ANC had hung a huge flag on a roof and had plastered the walls with their own election posters.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

We must multiply the formation of people's defence militia everywhere so as to meet more effectively the assault by the enemy's armed forces and the treacherous vigilantes and 'impis' which they employ.

From Ungovernability to Peoples Power - 1986 1986

Le sang de nos freres noir a coulé pour avoir denoncé le vole à grande échelle par ces présidents impis dont le goût de la luxure est son gêne.

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The British needed something positive to come out of this (largely unpopular) war, so they chose to recognize the incredible action at nearby Roarkes Drift, where less than a hundred British soldiers held off several Zulu impis intent on wiping them out.

Zulus on the Ramparts! by Victory Point Games « Third Point of Singularity 2009

He was in the thick of it, though I didn't even glimpse him from the time we jumped the barricades, until next morning, when the impis had drawn off, leaving us to lick our wounds among the smoking ruins.

Watershed 2010

* Anyway, as I watched the 24th companies on the Isan'lwana slope, pouring their fire into the brown, and the artillery banging away for dear life, cutting great lanes in the impis, I thought, bigod, we'll hold 'em yet.

Watershed 2010

They'd gobble up the picquet there, and be over the Natal border by sundown; it behoved Flashy to bear away north, and try to cross the river well beyond the reach of the impis.

Watershed 2010

The battle of Isandhlwana (the place of the Little House or Little Hand) was fought on January 22, 1879, when 1600 British and native troops of Lord Chelmsford's force invading Zululand were overwhelmed by 20,000 warriors of the impis of King Cetewayo (Ketshwayo).

Watershed 2010

The pursuing Zulus were certainly soldiers of the Udloko regiment, part of the Undi corps who formed the right wing of the impis at Isandhlwana.

Watershed 2010

Mowing down Zulu impis and Fuzzy-Wuzzies was one thing; facing the tough Germans quite another.

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