Mda’s latest novel paints a picture of how the West, then and now, refashions the other to validate its own preconceptions
Metal thieves have vandalised a statue of dead Zulu warriors at the entrance of the Isandlwana battlefield in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 27 February 2003
Nearly 80 Zulu warriors wearing armbands of white goat fur and loinclothes of antelope tails race down the battlefield of Isandlwana screaming and slapping their wooden clubs against their cowhide shields to rouse themselves for battle.