Shaka Zulu

A colonial official described it in his 1892 novel, Neda the Lily, as a haunted place with a gray peak shaped like the head of an old woman.

Some of the lore has history behind it, and according to local tradition, a tribe that lived there was crushed by Shaka Zulu in the early 19th century.

Their chiefs were buried in a taboo cave high on the slopes, and according to tradition, the mountain possesses some sort of spiritual force.

This belief that surrounds the area is part of why the next theory gained traction so fast in South Africa.

Well, let's actually unpack this in reality.

So in the early 1800s, the greatest loss of black life we've ever seen in this part of the world took place under the hands of Shaka Zulu in something called the Mfikane, where one to two million of the surrounding black tribes were slaughtered at the hands of Shaka Zulu.

The reason Lesotho is an independent country was because the Sothos fled for their life from the Zulus up into the mountains and the hills so they could get away from the Mfikane.

Similarly, we have another independent country, Swaziland, and the Matabele that fled up into Zimbabwe.

And then I think, you know, when everybody was forever mentioning that, that you're the first black, you know, to play for South Africa.

But because when I get selected to play for South Africa, there was Herschel Gibbs and Paul Adams, which is... me looking at them and I thought these are the guys that they were there before me and then if you know there's a guy Omar Henry that he played before them and then I follow suit and then understanding what the meaning of being the first South African to play is just because the language as not Africans, as not English, as Xhosa or Zulu or whatever the other languages.

So representing that particular of tribes, that's the meaning of being the first black South African to play for South Africa.

So you say you didn't understand

That

necklace, I got it from Lance Klusner.

So he went home, and then he came back with this Shaka Zulu thingy.

So I had to wear that as a symbol of friendship.

No.

If Shaka Zulu was playing, but...

Apparently that video was on autoplay and just kept rolling.

And when the teachers came in, it was still rolling.

We have to, to agree with Zulu cultural scholars on that one.

Some of the Zulu cultural scholars, call them social scholars, whatever you will, have said there's a need for a cleansing ceremony, spiritual cleansing ceremony of this culture, of historical culture of violence that was started especially by Shaka Zulu.

People actually don't realize that Shaka Zulu himself was leading the Zulus against South Africans, against the native South Africans specifically.

He was not, uh, fighting for us, those who were not part of his, whatever you want to call it, political and military agenda.

He was definitely against us.

That was a good question.

Or Shaka Zulu or any of those shows that talk about us, they only, they pick and choose when they want to do it.

That shit is cool.

Selective outrage.

So let's talk about the first reigned queen, Masale Kwanimojaji I.

Who was she and what did she establish that would shape the monarchy for the next two centuries? And I wonder what her relationship was as well with neighboring kings, because my understanding is that King Shaka would sometimes reach out to her for reign.

Thank you again for the question.

Queen Maselekwane Mujadji I is commonly identified as the first named reign queen to rule in the 19th century with public historical accounts placing her from approximately 1800 to 1854, as I mentioned in the beginning.

And her lasting contribution was to establish the female-centered, female-centric royal institution whose succession and ceremonial authority shaped the monarch for generations.

And her relationship with other kingdoms or traditional authorities.

One, we have the neighboring kings like your King Shaka in the previous years, which was an account that we got it already, obviously, that She was respected by those neighboring leaders because of association with the rain making.

So King Shaka and his people also at some point requested her intervention in helping them with their drought to say here we need rain, our people have drought and can you intervene as the rain queen.

However, not only has it been allowed and permitted throughout history, you see people being celebrated.

Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Shaka Zulu.

You see a lot of great men being celebrated.

And when you ask, what did they do? They were able to take the lives of other people more than others did.