Contents
Colour plates fall between pages 414 and 415
Preface: Zuluness in South Africa: From ‘Struggle’ Debate to
Democratic Transformation
Jabulani Sithole xii
Note on Orthography, Translation and Terminology xxi
Acknowledgements xxii
List of Abbreviations xxiii
Frames of Debate 1
1 Introduction: Zuluness in the Post- and Neo-worlds 3
Benedict Carton
2 The Empire Talks Back: Re-examining the Legacies of Shaka and
Zulu Power in Post-apartheid South Africa 23
Mbongiseni Buthelezi
3 Reflections on the Politics of Being ‘Zulu’ 35
John Wright
Foundations of Zuluness: Iron Age to Late 1800s 45
4 A Brief Archaeology of Precolonial Farming in KwaZulu-Natal 47
Gavin Whitelaw
5 Cattle Symbolism in Zulu Culture 62
W.D. Hammond-Tooke
6 Revisiting the Stereotype of Shaka’s ‘Devastations’ 69
John Wright
7 White Myths of Shaka 82
Dan Wylie
8 The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Kingdom 87
John Laband
9 Zulu Nationalist Literary Representations of King Dingane 97
Sifiso Ndlovu
10 A Reassessment of Women’s Power in the Zulu Kingdom 111
Sifiso Ndlovu
11 Enlightenment Theories of Civilisation and Savagery in British Natal:
The Colonial Origins of the (Zulu) African Barbarism Myth 122
Jeremy Martens
12 Awaken Nkulunkulu, Zulu God of the Old Testament: Pioneering
Missionaries During the Early Age of Racial Spectacle 133
Benedict Carton
13 Faithful Anthropologists: Christianity, Ethnography and the Making
of ‘Zulu Religion’ in Early Colonial Natal 153
Benedict Carton
14 ‘Bloodstained Grandeur’: Colonial and Imperial Stereotypes of Zulu
Warriors and Zulu Warfare 168
John Laband
15 ‘What Do You Red-Jackets Want in Our Country?’: The Zulu
Response to the British Invasion of 1879 177
Ian Knight
The Roots of Gathering Struggles: Late Nineteenth Century to
Middle Twentieth Century 191
16 Imperial Appropriations: Baden-Powell, the Wood Badge and the
Zulu Iziqu 193
Jeff Guy
17 ‘Happy Are Those Who Are Dead’: Crises in African Life in Late-
nineteenth-century and Early-twentieth-century Colonial Natal 214
John Lambert
18 The American Mission Revivals and the Birth of Modern Zulu
Evangelism 222
Robert J. Houle
19 Zulus, African Americans and the African Diaspora 240
Robert Vinson and Robert Edgar
20 Chiefs, Cattle and ‘Betterment’: Contesting Zuluness and Segregation
in the Reserves 250
Aran S. MacKinnon
21 ‘Death is not the End’: Zulu Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of
Zulu Cultural Revival 256
Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière
22 The Sport of Zuluness: Masculinity, Class and Cultural Identity in
Twentieth-century Black Soccer 273
Peter Alegi
23 Generating Change, Engendering Tradition: Rural Dynamics and the
Limits of Zuluness in Colonial Natal 281
Thomas McClendon
Hybridities: Customary Traditions, Healing and Spirituality and
Contentious Politics 291
24 Royal Precedents and Landscape Midwives: Claiming the Zululand
Wilderness 293
Shirley Brooks
25 Credo Mutwa: New Age Zulu 304
H. Christina Steyn
26 Healing and Harming: Medicine, Madness, Witchcraft and Tradition 312
Karen Flint and Julie Parle
27 Changing Meanings of the Battle of Ncome and Images of
King Dingane in Twentieth-century South Africa 322
Jabulani Sithole
28 Chief Albert Luthuli and Bantustan Politics 331
Jabulani Sithole
29 Undivided Loyalties: Inkatha and the Boy Scout Movement 341
Timothy Parsons
30 Shaka’s Aeroplane: The Take-off and Landing of Inkatha, Modern 352
Zulu Nationalism and Royal Politics
Thembisa Waetjen and Gerhard Maré
31 The Roots of Violence and Martial Zuluness on the East Rand 363
Philip Bonner and Vusi Ndima
32 Monuments of Division: Apartheid and Post-apartheid Struggles
over Zulu Nationalist Heritage Sites 383
Nsizwa Dlamini
33 Divisions and Realignments in Post-apartheid Zulu Local and
National Politics 395
Laurence Piper
Symbolisms of Culture 407
34 Beauty in the Hard Journey: Defining Trends in Twentieth-century
Zulu Art 409
Fiona Rankin-Smith
35 Ceremonial Beer Pots and their Uses 414
Juliet Armstrong
36 The Secret of Zulu Bead Language and Proportion and Balance
of the Zulu Headrest (Isigqiki) 418
Yvonne Winters
37 ‘Where’s it Gone, Freedom?’ Composing Isicathamiya in
Post-apartheid South Africa in the Age of 9/11 424
Liz Gunner and Imogen Gunner
38 Zulu Names 439
Adrian Koopman
39 Poetic Masters of Zuluness: The Dhlomo-Vilakazi Literary Debate 449
David Attwell
40 Cry, The Beloved Country: A Murder in Alan Paton’s Country, 1999 464
Jonny Steinberg
41 Failed Experiment? Challenging Homogenous ‘Zululisation’ in
South Africa’s Museums: The Case of Sisonke in Natal 476
Nsizwa Dlamini
42 ‘So that I will be a Marriageable Girl’: Umemulo in Contemporary Zulu Society 482
Thenjiwe Magwaza
Futures of Zuluness 497
43 Two Bulls in One Kraal: Local Politics, ‘Zulu History’ and Heritage
Tourism in Kosi Bay 499
Dingani Mthethwa
44 Claiming Community: Restitution on the Eastern Shores of
Lake St Lucia 515
Cherryl Walker
45 Virginity Testing: A Backward-looking Response to Sexual Regulation
in the HIV/AIDS Crisis 536
Tessa Marcus
46 Nomkhubulwane: Reinventing a Zulu Goddess 545
Michael Lambert
47 AIDS in Zulu Idiom: Etiological Configurations of Women, Pollution and Modernity 554
Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala
48 IsiZulu-speaking Men and Changing Households: From Providers
within Marriage to Providers outside Marriage 566
Mark Hunter
49 A Modern Coming of Age: Zulu Manhood, Domestic Work and
the ‘Kitchen Suit’ 573
Mxolisi Mchunu
50 Are Zulu Children Allowed to Ask Questions? Silence,
Death and Memory in the Time of AIDS 583
Philippe Denis
51 Bulls in the Boardroom: The Zulu Warrior Ethic and the
Spirit of South African Capitalism 591
Benedict Carton and Malcolm Draper
52 Zulu Identity in the International Context 606
Bill Freund
Credits for Illustrations 613 About the Contributors 616
Index 619