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Shaka

(Encyclopedia)Shaka shä´kä [key], d. 1828, paramount chief (1818–28) of the Zulus. He organized an army of some 40,000, and after reducing many enemy peoples to vassalage, he subjugated all of what is now KwaZ...

Chaka

(Encyclopedia)Chaka: see Shaka.

Ndebele

(Encyclopedia)Ndebele ndb´l [key] or Matabelemtb´l [key], Bantu-speaking people inhabiting Matabeleland North and South, W Zimbabwe. The Ndebele, now numbering close to 2 million, originated as a ...

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

(Encyclopedia)Ladysmith Black Mambazo mämbäz´ [key], choral group formed in 1965 in Ladysmith, South Africa, founded and led (until 2014) by Joseph Shabalala (1941–2020). The group, which sings with a precis...

Zululand

(Encyclopedia)Zululand zoo´loolnd [key], historic region and home of the Zulus, c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), NE KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Zululand is bordered by the Indian Ocean on the east, by Mozam...

KwaZulu-Natal

(Encyclopedia)KwaZulu-Natal kwäzoo´loo-nätäl´ [key], province (2011 pop. 10,267,300), 36,433 sq mi (94,361 sq km), E South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. Formerly Natal province, in the post-apartheid consti...

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