1838 Retief vermoor

In October1837, Piet Retief, Voortrekker Leader at the time, visited Dingaan at the Royal Kraal. Retief was in high spirits at the prospect of negotiating a land deal for his people with Dingaan. In November 1837, about 1000 Voortrekker wagons started the descent down the Drakensberg from the Orange Free State into Natal. Dingaan asked Piet Retief for a token of their friendly intentions. Some of Dingaan's cattle had been stolen by Chief Sekonyela and his tribesmen. He asked Retief to recover them. Retief and his party of 69 men recovered 700 head of cattle, 63 horses and a few rifles.

The party arrived back at uMgundlovu on 3 February 1838. On the following day, a treaty was signed, whereby Dingaan ceded all the land south of the Thukela River, as far as the Mzimvubu River, in the Transkei, to the Voortrekkers
On 6 February, Retief and his party were treated to a farewell dance by the Zulu impis. They were told to leave their firearms outside the royal kraal. Suddenly, when the dancing had reached a frenzied climax, Dingaan leapt to his feet and shouted "Bambani aba thakathi!" ("Kill the wizards!") The men were totally overpowered and dragged away to a hill called kwaMatiwane, named after a chief who had been killed there. Retief and his men were savagely butchered to death. The general opinion as to the reason why they were killed is because for some obscure reason, they withheld some of the cattle recovered from Chief Sekonyela.
(source: www.encounter.co.za)

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[Enzo0777]

@punkeruit1965 this is about history and people trying to live together in harmony. And you, you twat bring up racist comments. Without stupid people like you ,the world would be a better place. Because all over the world today a black man can never be racist. But whites are always accused of being racist. So, next time you and a white man can’t get along, he is not a racist he just don’t like you as a person because you stupid. And your comment you left proves it.

[Rico8458]

nice feedback.  i did not know that. thanks for teaching me that. i knew that Shaka had to deal with a lot of intrigue and infighting. it was not easy for him.

[Threelions80]

@Rico8458

Shaka Zulu believed that horses were too noisy, the reason for the fall of the Zulu empire was Shaka's brother murdering him and taking reign over the nation who declared war on the Boers and English, while the Boers and the English were a war as The intentions of the English was to colonise it without resistance and the Boers knew this and stopped them...

[Rico8458]

excellent reply. thanks.

[Gnubnub]

@Rico8458 The Zulu's themselves said they came far from the north and that would have been north of Umfolozi back then as that is were their tribe started before their great warring expansion. The Port of Delagoa was up that way. Did they build great buildings or boats - NO! So if they couldn't copy the Arab traders which would have been there to trade with zimbabwe at the time why should they copy the whites. Why wait for horses when you have elephants, rhino's zebra's etc???

[Rico8458]

did zulus ever use horses in battle? did they ever create a calvary? mounted zulu warriors on horseback? or did they never adopt the technology of the whites?

[punkeruit1965]

@Ngobamakosi

erm? that means "kill that stupid white racist f*?lol

Amandla!

[mapache34]

Good old historical movie-

[Ngobamakosi]

bulalani !!