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ZuluNguni-speaking people living in KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. Numbering about 9.5 million, they are South Africa's largest ethnic group. Traditionally grain farmers, they also kept large herds of cattle. European settlers wrested grazing and water resources from the Zulu in prolonged warfare during the 19th century; with much of their wealth lost, modern Zulu depend largely on wage labour on farms owned by whites or work in the cities. The Zulu provide the main support for the Inkatha Freedom Party. Many Zulu belong to independent or separatist African churches, though the traditional religion, based on ancestor worship and belief in a creator-god, witches, and sorcerers, remains strong. See also Shaka. Zulu 1. a member of a tall Negroid people of SE Africa, living chiefly in South Africa, who became dominant during the 19th century due to a warrior-clan system organized by the powerful leader, Shaka 2. the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family, closely related to Swazi and Xhosa How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Making pots, which are inseparable from Mother Earth, reminds black society that the culture of the Zulu people revolves around cattle, milk, and the making of beer and fermented milk, which are served to the ancestors in a small pots, called mancintshana. The play in itself is actually a metaphor for the Zulu people living in the 1980s under the iron rule of President P. Bryant, for his part, invented a portrait of last rites that relied on fictitious scenarios such as accompanying the imaginary "Jomela family" and its patriarch "along his last lap to the ferry-boat that would bear him to Hades": The Zulu People As They Were Before the White Man Came (Pietermaritzburg, 1949), 698. |
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