The article describes the way in which young Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, the former king of Zulu, reduced to being a common chief, sought to achieve a political paramountcy that became his royal pretensions. Topics include Dinuzulu's involvement in the 1906 Zulu rebellion and events thereafter, his 1898 return to Zululand after 10-years exile on St. Helena, and his allia...

‘Oh may we receive loyalty's fair reward’ is the penultimate verse of The Path of Duty, also called the ‘Natal Native Horse Refrain’. The Natal Native Horse was a mounted corps raised among related Christian communities in the British colony of Natal during the Zulu Rebellion of 1906. The idea was that they would demonstrate their loyalty to the government, and be ...