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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397402" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A host of people came south</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">According to tradition<br>at the beginning <br>of the seventeenth century<br>the tribes of Zulu, Xhosa, <br>Swazi and Pondo people<br>who have a related language<br>and similar culture<br>and now live in Southern Africa, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">migrated from the north<br>from a legendary place<br>they call eMbo<br>somewhere at the great lakes <br>in central Africa.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As part of a large group<br>under command of chief Dlamini<br>the vanguard under chief Nguni<br>went ahead and discovered<br>the rivers and hills of Zululand<br>splitting away from the host<br>where they killed the local Bushmen hunters<br>and a metal working offshoot<br>of the Karimba tribe<br>and to them these other people<br>is nothing more than phantoms<br>spooking in the cliffs, <br>the caves and in the reeds<br>near to the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the followers of Nguni<br>divided up into different clans<br>search for the best valley to settle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One of these people <br>was a man named Malandela<br>and they settled near to a river<br>that they called the forceful one, <br>building beehive huts<br>and on Malandela’s death<br>his two sons divided<br>the followers and possessions<br>between the two of them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The younger son was named Zulu<br>which means heaven<br>and he went with his mother<br>and followers<br>to find a place of his own<br>near a basin in hills<br>at the Mkhumbane river<br>and his people planted<br>a euphorbia tree over his grave<br>and from then on referred to it<br>as the place of the great chief<br>and all the earlier chiefs<br>except Shaka are buried<br>in that valley.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Believing that their spirits<br>and that of Shaka haunts this place<br>the Zulu army before battle<br>went to this valley<br>to pray at ancestral graves<br>and thundering out the salute: <br>“Because of us, war.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397402" data-title="A host of people came south de Gert Strydom" data-description="According to tradition at the beginning of the seventeenth century the tribes of Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi and Pondo people who have a related language and similar culture and now live in Southern Africa, migrated from the north from a legendary plac..."></div> </div> </div>
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