CROSSROADS OF WAR: THE PEOPLE OF NKANDLA IN THE ZULU REBELLION OF 1906

dc.creator	Paul S. Thompson
dc.date	2011-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:46Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:46Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/35-2-39
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9986749600ca4bb0bf0b89daac271fb6
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8463
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/9986749600ca4bb0bf0b89daac271fb6
dc.description	The rebellion and Nkandla<br />The Zulu Rebellion of 1906 was the violent response to the imposition of<br />a poll tax of £1 on all adult males (with exempted categories) by the government of<br />the British South African colony of Natal on the part of a section of the indigenous,<br />Zulu-speaking people. The rebellion was in the nature of “secondary resistance” to<br />European colonization, and the poll tax was only the immediate cause of it. Not all<br />the African people (who made up 82% of the colony’s population) participated in<br />the rebellion; only a few did, but there was the potential for a mass uprising, which<br />inspired great fear among the European settlers (who made up just 8,3% of the<br />population) and prompted the colony’s responsible government to take quick and<br />vigorous action to crush the rebellion before it could spread. The object of the rebels, beyond the removal of the poll tax, was to drive the white settlers out of the<br />country and to restore the pre-colonial regime, although it was unclear just what they<br />thought that might have been. In the case of most (but not all) of the those living in<br />the Province of Zululand, i.e. the northeastern quarter of the Colony of Natal, it<br />meant the restoration of the Zulu monarchy under the chief Dinuzulu.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/39
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 35, Iss 2 (2011)
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	CROSSROADS OF WAR: THE PEOPLE OF NKANDLA IN THE ZULU REBELLION OF 1906
dc.type	Article