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Scouting
in South Africa
1884-1890
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Portrait of Dinizulu c. 1888
From Charles Ballard,
The House of Shaka, 1988.
Photo courtesy of Ian Webb,
South African Scout Association |
Dinizulu
From: Stephen Taylor, Shaka’s Children: A
History of the Zulu People, 1994
Dinizulu was the son of
Cetshwayo who led the Zulu nation against the British in
the Zulu War of 1879. Cetshwayo was the last Zulu King so
recognized by the British. In Shaka’s Children: A
History of the Zulu People, Stephen
Taylor says of Dinizulu and his times:
"The
kingdom had gone, but the king lived on. Dinizulu was
Cetshwayo’s heir, an intelligent and muscular boy who
had entered adolescence when the amabutho were broken
at Ulundi, and was aged about seventeen when his
father died. He inherited all the pride of his
forebears and, in the words of Colenso’s son,
Francis, ‘trod the earth as if he owned it’. Nothing
that he endured altered his view of his destiny.
Unable to adjust as others had before him, he was to
spend his adult life in a state of embittered
resistance, interspersed with long periods in exile
and prison."
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Scouting
in South Africa, 1884-1890. Russell
Freeman’s Scouting with Baden-Powell
provides an easy to read and enjoyable account of
B-P’s two lives — as a serving officer in the
British Army, and as the Founder of the World
Scout Movement. His chapter on B-P in South
Africa in the 1880’s gives a good second-hand
account of B-P’s service there. It includes a
description of his pursuit of Dinizulu during the
Zulu civil war of 1883-1884. |
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King
Dinizulu at the time of his trial for treason, 1908.
From Stephen Taylor, Shaka’s Children: A
History of the Zulu People, 1994 |
The ribbon to the left
of this page displays an example of traditional Zulu
beadwork adapted from Hilgard S. Schoeman’s web pages: "Eloquent Elegance, Beadwork
in the ZULU cultural tradition"
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Last Modified: 11:50 PM on June 17, 1997
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