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Die swart Attila : [Verhale van Shaka]
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Year: 1946 Publisher: Pretoria : Unie-Boekhandel,

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Ukufa kukaShaka
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ISBN: 1776141121 1776140710 Year: 2021 Publisher: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press,

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Ukufa kukaShaka is a historical drama by Elliot Zondi, first published in 1960 in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series. Its plot is based on the events surrounding the assassination of Shaka, the mighty Zulu king, by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangana, aided and abetted by his paternal aunt, Mkabayi, in 1828. The play explores the classic theme of the tragic hero's fatal flaws: hubris and overconfidence. Shaka's ruthless ambition led him to overstep human boundaries, kill with impunity, bar his warriors from having families and force them into endless wars. His blind spot seems to have been to put the survival and expansion of the Zulu kingdom first and the welfare of his subjects second.

Against this backdrop Mkabayi, whose ambitions for a remarkable Zulu nation were more tempered, played a decisive role in his downfall. Zondi explores arguments both in favour of and against Shaka's assassination in a way that allows the reader to sympathise with his greater vision and his thwarted plan to fight impending colonialism. His dramatisation of the conflict between Shaka and Mkabayi highlights questions of leadership and nation-building that continue to be relevant today.


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Xaka
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Publisher: [Johannesburg : Afrikaanse pers-boekhandel,

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Ukufa kukaShaka
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Year: 1955 Publisher: Johannesburg : Witwatersrand university press,

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Ukufa kukaShaka
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ISBN: 9781776141128 9781776140718 1776141121 Year: 2021 Publisher: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press,

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Ukufa kukaShaka is a historical drama by Elliot Zondi, first published in 1960 in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series. Its plot is based on the events surrounding the assassination of Shaka, the mighty Zulu king, by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangana, aided and abetted by his paternal aunt, Mkabayi, in 1828. The play explores the classic theme of the tragic hero's fatal flaws: hubris and overconfidence. Shaka's ruthless ambition led him to overstep human boundaries, kill with impunity, bar his warriors from having families and force them into endless wars. His blind spot seems to have been to put the survival and expansion of the Zulu kingdom first and the welfare of his subjects second.

Against this backdrop Mkabayi, whose ambitions for a remarkable Zulu nation were more tempered, played a decisive role in his downfall. Zondi explores arguments both in favour of and against Shaka's assassination in a way that allows the reader to sympathise with his greater vision and his thwarted plan to fight impending colonialism. His dramatisation of the conflict between Shaka and Mkabayi highlights questions of leadership and nation-building that continue to be relevant today.

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Shaka Zulu
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ISBN: 014004826X Year: 1978 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin

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Shaka king of the Zulus in African literature
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ISBN: 091447829X 0914478303 Year: 1976 Publisher: Washington, D.C.

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Shaka Zulu
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Year: 1976 Publisher: St. Albans Panther

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Mens dier ding
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ISBN: 9789023482833 9023482832 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij,

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Wat weten we weinig van de roemruchte Sjaka - zijn leven hangt aan elkaar van roddel en achterklap. Hij is een machthebber, een held, een verschrikking, uitvinder van de korte steekspeer. Maar ook een asielzoeker, een dichter, een weeskind, een oude man die zit te verpieteren in een verpleeghuis. Hij dooft een vuur met zijn blote voet, zijn hobby's zijn schaken, vissen en met de auto eropuit trekken. Is hij ook de man die op de snelweg gaat liggen en uitein delijk vermist raakt? In de opzienbarende bundel 'Mens Dier Ding', Schaffers eerste sinds 'Kooi' (2008), maakt de lezer kennis met de overblijfselen van een mythe, aan de hand van korte dagboekfragmenten, monologen, herinneringen, brieven en meer. Het verhaal van een leven dat nooit het onze is geweest maar zich toch zo schrikbarend dichtbij moet hebben afgespeeld. Uiteindelijk is hij een doodnormaal verzinsel, net als iedereen.


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Chaka Zulu : Roman
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ISBN: 3717517481 371751749X 9783717517498 9783717517481 Year: 1988 Publisher: Zürich: Manesse,

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