John William Colenso was a Cornish cleric and mathematician, defender of the Zulu and biblical scholar, who was the first Bishop of Natal. He was a scholar of the Zulu language. As a churchman, he is now remembered for his theological views of the Bible, that set off intense controversy.
The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Following the Constitution Act of 1867 for the federation in Canada, by Lord Carnarvon, it was thought that similar political effort, coupled with military campaigns, might succeed with the African Kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. In 1874, Sir Bartle Frere was sent to South Africa as High Commissioner for the British Empire to effect such plans. Among the obstacles were the armed independent states of the South African Republic and the Kingdom of Zululand.
Eshowe is the oldest town of European settlement in Zululand. Eshowe's name is said to be inspired by the sound of wind blowing through the more than 4 km² of the indigenous Dlinza Forest, the most important and striking feature of the town. Although the name is most likely to be derived from the Zulu word for the Xysmalobium shrubs, showe or shongwe.
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Zululand under British rule.
Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder was a 19th-century Norwegian missionary who developed a close relationship with both the Zulu and British authorities.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Eshowe is a diocese located in the city of Eshowe in the Ecclesiastical province of Durban in South Africa.
The Diocese of Zululand is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa which covers the part of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal that lies to the northeast of the Buffalo and Tugela Rivers. It is divided in ten archdeaconries.
Christopher Charles Watts was an Anglican bishop. He served in the southern African church as Bishop of St Helena and then Bishop of Damaraland.
Charles Arthur William Aylen was an Anglican bishop.
Eric Joseph Trapp was an Anglican bishop in the mid-20th century.
The Rt Rev Wilmot Lushington Vyvyan was an Anglican Bishop in the mid-20th century.
Alpheus Hamilton Zulu was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century. Educated at the University of South Africa, he was ordained in 1940. In 1948 he co-founded with the Revd Philip Mbata, Iviyo loFakazi bakaKristu : a charismatic movement within the Anglican Church.
Thomas Joseph Savage was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the 20th century.
Douglas Mackenzie was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 19th century.
William Edmund Smyth (1858–1950) was an Anglican bishop in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth.
Ebenezer St Mark Ntlali is a South African Anglican bishop. He is the fourteenth and current Bishop of Grahamstown.
Richard Stanley Cutts (1919-1997) was the Anglican Bishop of Argentina and Eastern South America. He acted as Episcopal Commissary for the Falkland Islands, on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1978 until the outbreak of the Falklands War when Episcopal oversight was transferred to the Bishop to the Forces. Cutts was born in 1919 and died in 1997 of a heart attack.
Dino Gabriel is an Italian-born Anglican bishop of Natal in South Africa. He has a Swazi wife and they have four children. He is a fluent speaker of Zulu.
Anthony Thembinkosi Bonga Mdletshe was an Anglican bishop in South Africa at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st.
Peter Harker was bishop of Zululand from 1993 until 1997.
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