This neat museum just across the river from the wagon laager at Blood River gives a fascinating insight into the formation, history and life of the Zulu nation.
Also see The Msunduzi / Voortrekker Museum
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Hi there
I have been researching some family heirlooms and I came across an iron spear head. On it are written the words “Dinizulu” “Nobamba Kraal” and “1906”. I then discovered an autobiography written by my ancestor, Lt Col James Dick. In it is a single sentence entry that I think may be the source of the spear. It read:
“When I was at Dingaan’s slaughter place, I got a bone or two which I placed in a parcel along with an assegai head from Dinizulu’s Kraal and gave it to Johnson, our servant to take to Durban”.
I live in California, but I would be quite happy to return the spear head to its rightful home, if there is such a place.
Many thanks
John Truswell
Hi John,
Thank you for a kind gesture to handover the spear-head to a rightful home, where it would be treasured for generations.
I am a 64 year-old grandson of Mzuzwempi ka-Goboqwana ka-Khaphezela ka-Mhlumayi Zulu from the royal household. He passed on, in old age, when I was 13 years old and too young to pick his brain about our history. I am currently researching and collecting cultural/historical information and artefacts I can find to document and preserve for future generations.
The family would certainly treasure immensely such an artefact.
Ndabezitha,
May I please be a part of your initiative. It is very meaningful and imperative that such research is conducted on today’s archival collections because the richness, authenticity, credibility and accuracy of our history will be preserved for generations to come especially if compiled and told by our own selves.