Playing The Enemy: Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation - Plot & Excerpts
Dingaan, the Zulu king, eyed the trekkers with apprehension. He had received reports that they were gobbling up land wherever they went, but he had also heard that they had inflicted terrible losses on the black tribes that had tried to oppose them. Dingaan’s first instinct was to stand and fight. The Zulus were, after all, the bravest, most disciplined, and most feared warriors in southern Africa. Earlier generations of his people had swept all before them the way the Boers appeared to be doing now. But this enemy had horses and rifles, and the Zulu king reckoned he might be better off trying to strike a deal than pitting his spear-wielding impis against them. So he sent out emissaries to General Retief and invited him to his royal kraal, proposing they come up with a formula to allow them to live side by side in peace. Retief, whom history holds to have been an honorable man, accepted the invitation, despite warnings from some of his people not to trust the Zulu king, who had ascended to the throne after murdering his half brother, Shaka.
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