Word: ulundi
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...leadership, amid a solid institutional framework, that inhibits the country's decisive response to the hiv/aids pandemic, structural unemployment and abject poverty. What this country, and indeed the continent, needs is probably a well-balanced combination of the two. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi M.P. President of the Inkatha Freedom Party Ulundi, South Africa Gender Sensitivity for All In the interview with newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [Nov. 28], Time asked, "Is there something extra you bring to the job as a woman?" She responded, "Sensitivity to human needs. Maybe that comes from being a mother and interacting with other...
...force if necessary to resist the white government's efforts to grant KwaZulu "independence," a move that would deprive the Zulus of their South African citizenship as well as of a nationwide political role. In 1981 he refused a government offer to build an administration building for KwaZulu in Ulundi, the capital, fearing that acceptance would indebt him to Pretoria. Instead, the homeland saved $18 million from tax revenues and constructed a building adorned with murals and carved wooden doors that is widely viewed as one of the most elegant structures in South Africa...
...after numerous disputes, the British army invaded Zululand. The Zulus fought back ferociously, and at the Battle of Isandhlwana some 10,000 Zulus wiped out 1,300 British and native soldiers in hand-to-hand fighting. The British, however, had the Gatling gun. They sacked the Zulu capital of Ulundi and divided the fallen empire into 13 quarreling kingdoms...
...live long enough to find out. In 1828, covetous relatives dethroned Shaka by the usual method-murder. Over the next 50 years, successive assassinations eventually lodged a grandson, Cetshwayo, in the royal kraal at Ulundi. Fate and the British decreed that this gentle bull of a man would preside over the nation's death...