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Finding King Shaka's Isivivane

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In Zulu, the word "isivivane" means to "throw your stone upon the pile". Our book "Op Pad in Suid-Afrika" ( http://www.loot.co.za/product/b-p-j-erasmus-op-pad-in-suid-afrika/xhjf-2791-g650 ) also available in English ( http://www.loot.co.za/product/b-p-j-erasmus-on-route-in-south-africa/jvws-2791-g480 ) had a very short little paragraph under the section about Umzumbe (where we spent a week) telling the story of how King Shaka's "isivivane" was still at the spot where he made it in 1828.  It said that Shaka picked up a stone in his left foot, muttered a prayer, took it with his right hand, spat on it and put it on the ground. All of his men then followed suit and they created a huge pile of stones. This was in order to gain favour from the ancestors for his next invasion. (into Pondoland) We were immediately curious about this interesting place and I started googling for some more information. I came across this article on the Umz
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Verf en verf en verf

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Ons slaapkamer se badkamer het die vreeslikste pienk blommetjie teëls gehad. Een so teëltjie is mooi, maar as jy 'n hele badkamer met dit doen, raak dit bietjie erg vir ons 2014-oë. Ons toilet het ook nie eers gewerk nie (het nie geweet dat mens daarna moet kyk voor jy 'n huis koop nie...) Ek hoor toe dat mens oor dit kan verf en ek probeer dit toe.  Ek dog toe ek wil "kreatief" wees en die randjie hou van die tëels. TERRIBLE IDEE!! Dit lyk toe eerstens nie te great nie, en tweedens het ek universal undercoat en wit pva verf gebruik - glad nie baie slim nie, maar dis mos wat gebeur as jy MOEG is....jy word DOM...  Arme Kelina skrop toemet 'n potskuurder 2 weke lank af daaraan.... en ek begin toe van voor af.  Sy kon nie oral inkom met haar lappie nie en op 'n vriend van ons, Andre du Toit ( www.roofcoating.co.za ) se raad, skuur ek dit toe verder af met die klein "grinder" en staalborseltjie. 
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On the road to Isandlwana

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The Anglo-Zulu wars are not something I knew of before, or learnt about at school for that matter. We learnt mainly about the Great Trek of the Voortrekkers and a little about the Anglo-Boer war. I have read that our minister of education is planning to include more African history in our school curriculum and I think that it will be a good thing, unless the pendulum is just swinging all the way to the other extreme by not including the history of all the peoples in South Africa (Afrikaner, English, Zulu, San, Xhosa... so many to mention!) So on our way down to the coast, we decided to follow a route in this book of ours: The Anglo-Zulu Battlefields route. In the book it consists of 3 days, but we only managed to do the first day. Our first stop was the battlefield of Isandlwana. The battlefield at Isandlwana - the white rocks are strewn far and wide around this hill and mark the places where the British fell. Apparently the British gave the Zul
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