BAMBATHA AT MPANZA: THE MAKING OF A REBEL

dc.creator	Fankie Monama
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:50Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:50Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/32-2-138
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/92d6bd777692479a9e5bd7d5c3301478
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8505
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/92d6bd777692479a9e5bd7d5c3301478
dc.description	Bambatha is widely known as the chief who led a group of men to confront the Natal colonial government in protest against poll tax. He lived in a broken, sandy and stoney area known as Mpanza valley, to the north of Greytown, in the Natal colony of the former British Empire. The inhabitants of this valley were the Zulu tribe called Amazondi (officially called Abasengome). This land was dry and poor for cultivation and for game. It was a farmland owned by white men but settled by the Amazondi since 1854 as a “private location” of indigenous people who did not live in an officially designated Native Location (an exclusive site for the settlement of indigenous people). The white people were called the thorns. Bambatha led the last armed resistance of the Africans before the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. He was eventually captured and beheaded. He provided the source of strength to boost the morale of those who continued with the struggle for liberation in subsequent years. This is the perception around Bambatha and his rebellion in 1906. But how exactly did it happen that he became a defiant chief who did not acquiesce to the demands of the colonial government? This book provides a descriptive analysis of the career of Bambatha until his flight to Zululand after the failure of his endeavour-armed resistance.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/138
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 32, Iss 2 (2012)
dc.subject	ISBN Pb 0-620-31692-6
dc.subject	Bambatha
dc.subject	Natal colonial government
dc.subject	protest against poll tax
dc.subject	Mpanza valley
dc.subject	British Empire
dc.subject	Amazondi
dc.subject	Union of South Africa
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	BAMBATHA AT MPANZA: THE MAKING OF A REBEL
dc.type	Article