“Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.”

— Shaka

Advice to King Dingiswayo on the treatment of the defeated Ndwandwe, reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 50

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leader of the Zulu Kingdom 1787–1828

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