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