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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.
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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
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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
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Navy frigate, SAS Isandlwana, and two submarines, the SAS Chalotte
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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
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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
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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
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Isandlwana, SAS Spioenkop, and the SAS Mendi - at a total cost of about EU500 million.
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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
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"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
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August 31, 2011