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The Great Invasion

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19.04.23 Pt 2 - A peek into a unique and poorly recorded history of the Zulu Kingdom in South African… historian John Laband talks to Gareth about his latest book, ‘The Boer Invasion of the Zulu Kingdom’. Gareth and John touch on the back-stabbing Dingaan, King Shaka - who can arguably be described as a myth, due to the lack of information on him as a person, and the many different stories based on word of mouth. Laband goes into great detail about the Trekkers, and their strategy within the invasion of the Kingdom.
19 Apr 2023 1AM English Explicit South Africa Society & Culture · News

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