It is now one hundred years since the British invaded the Zulu kingdom and the Zulu, by the
effectiveness of their resistance, brought their name so dramatically before the world.
Although the way had been prepared by travellers' accounts, and by the" intelligent Zulu"
On 11 January, one hundred years ago, the British forces under General Chelmsford invaded Zululand. Thus began the Anglo-Zulu war, a war which was to prove a major turning point …