SIX ZULUS KILLLED IN FIGHT
TROUBLE AT BETROTHAL PARTY DURBAN j A tribal fight at a Zulu betrothal J party, in which six men were killed. | has resulted in 47 participants being | sentenced to six months’ hard labour | for fighting. j The natives belonged to two families —the Mcunus and the Dhlaminis —which 1 were enemies as the result of a clash i some years ago. j The first day of the betrothal passed off quietly with the usual cooking and eating of an ox. According to tribal custom the head was left, until the second day, to be skinned, cooked and eaten only by the closest friends and relatives. * A headman, fearing trouble, ordered the Dhlaminis to sleep in their main kraal away from their rivals, but early in the morning the blowing of horns and whistles warned him that trouble was afoot He saw a Dhlamini impi of armed men approach a Mcunu kraal and sit waiting. Meanwhile a Mcunu “impi” had appeared from behind a hill. After watching each other all day. the rival factions clashed in a maize i field, and in a few minutes six men were killed and a number injured According to the evidence given in court, women ‘‘egged” the men on.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 10
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