HISTORIFICATION

Classify and evaluate the relationship between Mpande and voortrekkers. Who was Mpande? Author: Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede                    Mpande with his slaves or izicathalala Mpande was the son of Senzangakhona and half brother of Sgujana, Shaka and Dingane. He was born in 1798 at Babanango in Zululand now called Kwazulu natal, with the help of vootrekkers he assassinated his brother Dingane and became the king of Amazulu from 1840 to 1872. Mpande was viewed as the weakman in comparison to his predecessors. Dingane instructed his Chief induna Ndlela ka Sompisi to Assassinate Mpande, because Mpande was the only son who had many children killing him could mean the loss or zulukingdom and could disturb chronological succession of Zulu kings. Ndlela ka Sompisi decided alone not to kill Mapnde. As a result of his inability to do as he was instructed he was tortured to death by Dingane. After Mpande learned that Dingane mistrusted ...

Article by: Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede  In order to write a proper essay that will attract the attention of the reader or the marker you need to write your essay using the following steps by MR M.Z Gumede who is a young growing historian in South Africa. He identified five steps that one nees to follow when writing an essay. Read the question  Identify key words Understand key words List subtopics at the back of your script or rough book for you to remember Start writing Your essay is made up of three components that need to part of your essay if they are not part of your writing that type of writing could not be considered as an essay. And these components are: Introduction Body Conclusion                                         Introduction In your introduction you introduce your essay. As the word introduction comes from the word introduce. Here you giv...

Article by: Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede Abantu bakwa Masondo Bande ezindaweni ezahlukene kwa Zulu natal, okubalwa EMpangeni, Richardsbay, Mtubatuba kanye nase Showe. Izithaka zelo zakwa Masondo zithi: Mthethwa! Nyambose! Xaba! Jobe! Magaga! Dingiswayo! Maviyane, Mahlamba ngobisi abanye behlamba ngamanzi; Donga Dilika! Sihlahla Somyezane esahlula abaweli. Khubazi! Nkomo! Madaku! Khali! Mageza ngobisi! Nkonyane yenkosi, Hlangalezwe! Geja! Jakada! Maphoswa! Mazilwa! Mbolwane, Shwabade Nomkosi;  Mlandela! Mathangana amahle Afanelwe ukwenziwa! Nina eniphuza amanzi emichachazweni! Nina enalandela amasondo ezinyamazane!  Abakwa Masondo bahlobene nalezibongo ezilandelayo: Mthethwa, Mpanza, Mavundla, Nxele, Msweli, Mkhize, Mkhwanazi, Shange, Shiba, Ntshakala, kanye nezinye eziningi. Isibongo sakwa Masondo siqhamuka esibongweni sakwa Mthethwa. Abantu bakwa Masondo  bangabe nguni abangama lala  njengabo abantu bakwa Mthethwa. Abantu bakwa Mthethwa baqhamuka en...

Article by: Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede Cecil John Rhodes had been viewed by historinas as the businessman, Brilliant Politician, capitalist, imperialist and as the mining magnant. By looking at his actions or his doings during his time it can be argued and say that all these terms correctly define Cecil John Rhodes. In this short article Rhodes will be proven as the Politician, mining magnat, Businessman and as an imperialist. Before we further go on let us first know who was that man. Cecil John Rhodes was born in England on 05 July 1853 and he died in South Africa on 26 March 1902. He was wellknown as Businessman, mining magnat and Brilliant politician in the cape. In 1895 Rhodesia and South Africa's Rhoses university was named after him. He also set up the provission of Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his State. In 1890 Rhodes became the prime minister of the cape colony and implemented laws that would benefit mine and industry owners. His policies were intrumental ...

Article by Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede Source: google Dinuzulu was the son of king Cetshwayo, He was born in 1868. He succeeded his father Cetshwayo ka Mpande ka Senzangakhona who was the last king of Amazulu to be officially recognized as such by the British. King Dinuzulu had eleven children including Solomon who succeeded him as the king. His head wife was Silomo ka Ntuzwa. Zululand had been divided into 13 smaller territories by British After the Anglo Zulu war and Dinuzulu administered one of them. In 1884 after the death of Cetshwayo Dinuzulu was too young to become the king because he was only 15 years old. After Zibhebhu ka Maphitha had tried to kill Cetshwayo, there was a big possibility that he could also kill Dinuzulu to claim power. Dunuzulu was taken into safe place in Transvaal by his uncles. On 05 July 1884 Dinuzulu and Usuthu allied with the Boers and they defeated Zibhebhu at Etshaneni in Lebombo Mountains. In Return the Boers received 800 farms King Cetshwayo ka Mpa...

Article by: Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede                                           INTRODUCTION This article is critically about the origins or causes of the Great trek. This includes, political, social and economic causes of this movement in Southern Africa. Before embarking further on the causes of the the Great trek it is important for us to know and understand the term Great trek. Great trek was the movement of Dutch speaking colonies into the interior of Southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own homeland indipendent from British rule. It was a mass movement into the interior of South Africa. Great trek was also defined as the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the cape colony to the north from 1836 to 1845 to escape from British Authority. This was the name given to the migration of Afrikaners from the British ...

Article by: Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede This essayor this article will focus more on the causes to the rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. First let us look at DR Maxuell Zakhele Shamase the Examiner writting and Lecturing in University of Zululand specialises on European History on how he usually ask his question during Examination. Bellow is the question based on the above topic. ●Account for the rise and fall of  Napoleon Bonaparte So how to answer or to tattle this question?. To understand the question you need first to identify the key words/concepts in a statement or question. In this question the key word is Account. So before answering you need to know and understand the meaning of the word account. When you account you just motivate and give reasons. In this case we will be looking at the reasons for the rise and fall of Napoleon. Look as we embark on the question below.                             ...

Article by Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede Doctor Maxuell Zakhele Shamase the Lecturer in University of Zululand lecturing on European history AHIS 211 usually ask the following question in the test and examination under this topic. "Without the Assassination at Sarajevo, the first World war wouldn't  have been broken out do you agree? Give reasons for your answer. " Now to answer to this question you need to state whether you agree or you disagree with the above statement, in your introduction and as you continue writing your arguments or motivation should show that you agree if you do and disagree if you are against the statement. Look below on how to answer this question. Introduction This writting is about the causes of the first world war in July 1914. So i disagree with the above statement because there were a lot of factors that led to the outbreak of the first world war, it was not only the Assasination. World war occured between July 1914 and November 1918. Thi...

 Doctor Maxuell Zakhele Shamase the Lecturer in University of Zululand. In AHIS 211 he ussually ask the following question. Discuss how economic, interllectual and Ecclessiastical factors that contributed towards the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 In this writings the causes that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution will be discussed. First the term Revolution will be defined and distinguished from the term evolution. The Political, Social, economic, interllectual and ecclisiastic causes of the French Revolution will be discussed fully. Before moving further in discussing the causes of the French Revolution it is importance to understand and know the term Revolt. The word revolt refers to the changes undertaken by a small group of people to rebel against unwanted government and someone or something. The word Revolution comes from the word Revolt. Revolution means to rise against, to turn against, to reject something in a form of action, to voice your objecti...

By Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede DYNASTY OF ZULU KINGS

Biographical essay of King Goodwill Zwelithini ka Bhekuzulu By: Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede Introduction This is the biographical essay of king Goodwill Zwelithini ka Cyprian Bhekuzulu. King Zwelithini became the 8th monarchy to lead Amazulu who were also refered as the Zulus, However Professor Sipho Hamilton Simelane had argued and said there are no people called the zulus and he refered to this term as the misconception. In this writtings therefore early life or childhood, Education and Family life, Career accomplishments including military service, Political career and late and late life etc will be discussed in this writtings. In this type of writtings it is important to write about a person's person life including his early life and his death, However in this death will not be discussed as a result of that king Goodwill is still alive. Early life Goodwill Zwelithini ka Cyprian Bhekuzulu was born on 14 july 1948 at kwa Nongoma in Kwazulu Natal. His father king Cyprina ka S...

By Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede Who was Shaka?, How shaka has been portrayed? What were the military tactics of king Shaka? INTRODUCTION Shaka was a wellknown political figure in the History of the Zulu people. In this short writings the above mentioned questions will be answered. This article will help university Students and school pupils(grade10). Who was Shaka? Insearch of history(127:2015) Shaka zulu was commonly known as Sigidi ka Senzangakhona. He was the great zulu king and the conqueror. Shaka lived in an area of South east Africa between the Drankensburg and Indian ocean. He brought Many chiefdoms together under his control. Shaka was the son of Senzangakhona and his mother was Nandi who was the daughter of Elangeni chiefdom. Sources differ as to where Shaka was born but most says that Shaka was born at Senzangakhona's homestead but his parents were not married. Some sources says that Shaka was born at Elangeni ( Ngunga Homestead), the home of his mother. There i...

By Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede This article is about history and types of written history. People tend to think that history is only about the past events of which is something wrong or not true. In this short writings questions like what is history?, will be answered and discussed fully. Types of written history such as narriative history, Didactic history and Genetic history will be discussed. What is history? History have been defined in different ways by historians and scholars of history. The definition of this term differ from one person to another and from one historian to another. According to some historians the word history comes from the Greec word "Historia" which means knowledge acquired through investigation. Defining the word history is problematic, it is a problem because people define the term history in various ways. Some have defined history as the events of the past. The actual happenings of the past and record or account of those events. The process of ...

    By Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede                                          INTRODUCTION Greetings to all Gumede people and as well as everyone reading this article. In this short article Gumede surname is going to be discussed to it fully and this include, its origin  and family dynasty of the gumedes. The origin of this surname is going to be traced where they came from and what caused them to move from their original land to another territories they are residing at right now. The surname of Gumede comes from one of the Sons of Malandela.Qwabe was born before Zulu and that makes their history to look almost similar to each other. Between this brothers there was a disagreement concerning who must look after the castles(imfuyo) just like all families.Qwabe the brother of zulu liked hunting more than other things and that led his brother Zulu to look after Imfuyo and ot...

Essays are different, for instance essay that is about history is different From that of English, business studies, tourism and other subjects. In this short article you are going to learn more on how to write History essay. Before writing an essay you must have a question that need to be answered, don't just write without any question. There are many factors that you need to consider when writing an essay and this include the following: The purpose of writing, for example what the essay is about, the time frame when the event take place, Space where the event took place, Reasons what led to that particular event and what were the consequences or the after math of the event. ALL essays are made up of 3 most important components and these are, 1. Introduction, 2. Body[content] and 3. Conclusion or outroduction. Information that is contained in all these parts of essay is not the same. In your introduction you need to mention the purpose of writing the essay, Introduce points you...