THE DEFAQNE - SOCIO-MILITARY REVOLUTION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANT

dc.creator	E.H. Ward
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:52Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:52Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/13-3-549
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8e13952bbdc141f7831a8518196f5e55
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8531
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/8e13952bbdc141f7831a8518196f5e55
dc.description	Of all the factors which have in some way or another influenced the distribution of mankind on the surface of the earth, his physical environment must surely be regarded as one of the most dominant. However, despite the fact that they encompass some of the most arable and mineral rich areas to be found in the subcontinent, the shattered and periferal nature of South Africa's Black National States suggest that something radically more dramatic than a benevolent clime was responsible for this pattern. Lying as they do, like so many land locked islands of humanity, scattered around the perimeter of a strongly depopulated hinterland, they create the impression of having being cast there by the shock waves of some cataclysmic human upheaval which must have occured at some time in their past. Any attempt to explain the causation of this demographic phenomenon historically must, however, surely be preceded, by a precise definition of one's point of departure in terms of both time and circumstances. Thus, before attributing the present situation to the events of the past, it becomes necessary to first examine the beginning.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/549
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 13, Iss 3 (2012)
dc.subject	South Africa's Black National States
dc.subject	Population pressure and cultural shifts
dc.subject	The rise of Shaka and the Zulu war machine
dc.subject	The Defaqne - an African apocalypse
dc.subject	socio-military conflagration
dc.subject	Military Science
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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	THE DEFAQNE - SOCIO-MILITARY REVOLUTION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANT
dc.type	Article