The aunt of King
Shaka,
Mkabayi kaJama, created the tribe. When the king sent Mkabayi to ebaQuluseni, near the present
Vryheid and
Hlobane, she founded the powerful abaQulusi tribe that played a big role in the coming wars.[2][3][4]
Donald R. Morris, The washing of the spears : a history of the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka and its fall in the Zulu War of 1879, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1971, 1965, 655 p.
William Watson Race, The Epic Anglo Zulu War on Canvas, Talisman Prints, 2007, p. 108-111.
Adrian Greaves, Xolani Mkhize, The Tribe that Washed its Spears: The Zulu's at War, Pen and sword military, 2013,
ISBN9781848848412.
Nicki von der Heyde, Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa, Struik, 2013,
ISBN9781431701001
Novels
David Ebsworth, The Kraals of Ulundi, Silverwood Books, 2014
Philippe Morvan, Les fils du ciel (The sons of the sky),
Calmann-Lévy, 2021
References
^Peter Warwick, Black People and the South African War 1899-1902, p. 91
^Ken Gillings, Discovering the Battlefields of the Anglo-Zulu War, pages 105-6