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GGZ-06N - Zulu Warriors
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The regiment had a stormy and divided history. It had been involved with a feud against the inGobamakhosi regiement over women.
In 1878 Cetshwayo gave the uThulwana permission to marry the female intanga that had been assigned to them, the inGcugce.
The uThulwana had been kept waiting for a long time for permission to marry, and men were now in their forties, but the girls of the inGcugce had been enrolled at about the same time as the inGobamakhosi, and most of them in their late teens had already formed pre marriage partnerships with the men of the younger regiment.
When the uThulwana adorned with new headrings appeared to claim their brides, most of the girls had run off into the bush and could not be found.
There was a fight in which the uThulwana set about every man not wearing a headring, and the inGobamakhosi attacked every man with one.
The conflict was never resolved and whenever the two regiments came into contact the quarrel would flare up again.
At Isandlwana both regiments were drawn up well apart from one another.
Brand: John Jenkins
