* Zulu Love Letter ( Ramadan Suleman )

At the age of 18 Dube joined his cousin's band, The Love Brothers, playing Zulu pop music known as mbaqanga whilst funding his lifestyle by working for Hole and Cooke as a security guard at the car auctions in Midrand.

It was then that he hooked up with famed breaker, Larry Love of the Zulu Nation, and took his first stage name, “ Gangsta Boogie .” ( This was the time when Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five were presumed the hottest thing in hip hop.

Afrika Bambaataa ( left ) with DJ Yutaka of Zulu Nation Japan, 2004.

* Wrangler Brutes – Zulu ( 2004 )

TV 2 has five subsidiary stations known as TV 2 Zulu, targeted at the youth, TV 2 Charlie, oriented towards older audiences, TV 2 News, a 24-hour news channel ( launched on 1 December 2006 ), TV 2 Film, a non-stop movie channel ( launched on 1 November 2005 ), and TV 2 Sport, a dedicated sports channel, as well as the internet-based pay-per-view channel TV 2 Sputnik which started broadcasting in December 2004.

In 2004 the magazine Total Film named Zulu the 37th greatest British movie of all time, and it was voted eighth in the British television programme The 100 Greatest War Films.

Gilbert Francis Lani Damian Kauhi ( October 17, 1937 – May 3, 2004 ), also known by the stage names Zulu and Zoulou, was an American actor and comedian.

Afrika Bambaataa with DJ Yutaka of Universal Zulu Nation Japan, 2004.

Film maker SiyaBonga Makhathini has directed the film " We Still are Warriors " which captures the essence of the Modern day Zulu Stick fighter, descendant of the kings of old.

While making Sodom and Gomorrah ( 1963 ) he struck up a relationship with Joseph E. Levine which enabled him to raise the money for Zulu ( 1964 ), directed by Enfield.

Whisky Romeo Zulu is a 2005 Argentine drama film, directed by Enrique Piñeyro and written by Piñeyro and Emiliano Torres.

Shaka Zulu was a 1986 television serial directed by William C. Faure and written by Joshua Sinclair for the South African Broadcasting Corporation ( SABC ).

The Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 saw a small British force repel an overwhelming attack by Zulu forces ; eleven Victoria Cross es were awarded for the defence.

In the southeast, in eastern South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language or languages by the languages of the Nguni cluster ( especially Zulu, Xhosa, and Phuthi, but also to a lesser extent Swazi and Ndebele ), and spread from them in a reduced fashion to the Zulu-based pidgin Fanagalo, Sesotho, Tsonga, Ronga, the Mzimba dialect of Tumbuka, and more recently to Ndau and urban varieties of Pedi, where the spread of clicks is an ongoing process.

The most populous languages with clicks, Zulu and Xhosa, use the letters c, q, x, by themselves and in digraphs, to write click consonants.

* 1838 – Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza ( Nzobo ) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

There was formerly one " Zulu " company of counter-revolutionary specialists, which was deactivated in late 2000 due to a mutiny by some of its members.

The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies mounting massed attacks, including the Matabele, the Zulu, the Bedouins, and the Mahdists.

In 1879 the Zulu Kingdom was invaded by Britain in a quest to control all of South Africa.

They were systematized radically by the Zulu king Shaka, who was then only the exiled illegitimate son of king Senzangakona, but already showing much prowess as a general in the army of Mthethwa king Dingiswayo in the Mthethwa-Ndwandwe war in the early 1810s.

Zulu tradition indicates that Shaka hardened the feet of his troops by having them stamp thorny tree and bush branches flat.

Upkeep of the regimental system and training seems to have continued after Shaka's death, although Zulu defeats by the Boers, and growing encroachment by British colonists, sharply curtailed raiding operations prior to the War of 1879.

Morris ( 1965, 1982 ) records one such mission under King Mpande to give green warriors of the uThulwana regiment experience: a raid into Swaziland, dubbed " Fund ' uThulwana " by the Zulu, or " Teach the uThulwana ".

Developments and refinements may have taken place after Shaka's death, as witnessed by the use of larger groupings of regiments by the Zulu against the British in 1879.

Blanketed by a hail of British bullets, rockets and artillery, the advance of the Zulu faltered.

The victory won by Zulu king Cetawasyo at Ndondakusuka, for example, two decades before the British invasion involved a deployment of 30, 000 troops.

The Zulu failed to make use of their superior mobility by attacking the British rear area such as Natal or in interdicting vulnerable British supply lines.

Indeed, the Zulu attacks on the British strongpoints at Rorke's Drift and at Kambula, ( both bloody defeats ) seemed to have been carried out by over-enthusiastic leaders and warriors despite contrary orders of the Zulu King, Cetshwayo.

* 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.

and Zambian Humanism: some major spiritual and economic challenges, by Justin B. Zulu.

Etherington argues that no such thing as the Mfecane occurred, the Zulu were no more marauding than any other group in the region, and the land the Voortrekkers saw as empty was not settled by either Zulu or Basotho because those people did not value open lowland plains as pasture.

A further link is supplied by the Zulu belief that the magician's familiar is really a transformed human being ; when he finds a dead body on which he can work his spells without fear of discovery, the wizard breathes a sort of life into it, which enables it to move and speak, it being thought that some dead wizard has taken possession of it.

He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in a number of British films, including, Zulu ( 1964 ), The Ipcress File ( 1965 ), Alfie ( 1966 ), The Italian Job ( 1969 ), and Battle of Britain ( 1969 ).

When this play moved to the Criterion in Piccadilly with Michael Codron directing, he was visited backstage by Stanley Baker, one of the four stars in Caine's first film, A Hill In Korea, who told him about the part of a Cockney corporal in his upcoming film Zulu, a film Baker was producing and starring in.

Norse berserkers and the Zulu battle trance are two other examples of the tendency of certain groups to work themselves up into a killing frenzy.

The Nguni languages in the southern Bantu languages family, including Phuthi, Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele and Swati, also have contrastive breathy voice.

His major languages were Lamba and Luba, but as no suitable examiner was available, he eventually had to change his language to Zulu.

for his doctoral thesis The Phonetics of the Zulu Language and was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

* Zulu – English Dictionary.

In his work, Meinhof looked at the common Bantu languages such as Swahili and Zulu to determine similarities and differences.

The IPA symbols are used in writing most Khoisan languages, but Bantu languages such as Zulu typically use Latin c, x and q for dental, lateral, and alveolar clicks respectively.

In related Zulu, though nasal assimilation is velar, that only indicates that the onset of the rear articulation is velar ; the release is still uvular.

In languages without, such as Zulu, may be written gq.

The Third Republic followed and after the death of his son Napoleon ( IV ), in 1879 during the Zulu War, the Bonapartist movement split, and the Third Republic was to last until 1940.

The lateral fricative occurs as the ll of Welsh, as in Lloyd, Llewelyn, and the town of Machynlleth (), as the unvoiced ' hl ' and voiced ' dl ' or ' dhl ' in the several languages of Southern Africa ( such as Xhosa and Zulu ), and in Mongolian.

Before the introduction of UTC on 1 January 1972 Greenwich Mean Time ( also known as Zulu time ) was the same as Universal Time ( UT ) which is a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

Other African names for the giraffe include Ekorii ( Ateso ), Kanyiet ( Elgon ), Nduida ( Gikuyu ), Tiga ( Kalenjin and Luo ), Ndwiya ( Kamba ), Nudululu ( Kihehe ), Ntegha ( Kinyaturu ), Ondere ( Lugbara ), Etiika ( Luhya ), Kuri ( Ma ' di ), Oloodo-kirragata or Olchangito-oodo ( Maasai ), Lenywa ( Meru ), Hori ( Pare ), Lment ( Samburu ) and Twiga ( Swahili and others ) in the east ; and Tutwa ( Lozi ), Nthutlwa ( Shangaan ), Indlulamitsi ( Siswati ), Thutlwa ( Sotho ), Thuda ( Venda ) and Ndlulamithi ( Zulu ) in the south.

Its major catalyst was the consolidation of the Zulu state.

When Dingiswayo of Mthethwa died, Shaka of the Zulu people took over.

He established the Zulu Kingdom, asserting authority over the Ndwandwe and pushing the Swazi north.

Voortrekkers tried to occupy Zulu land in 1838.

In the early months they were defeated, but the survivors regrouped at the Ncome River and soundly defeated the Zulu.

However, the Voortrekkers dared not settle Zulu land.