226 - Shaka Zulu

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Shaka Zulu! I'm guessing you've heard the name. Also guessing you know very little about his story. Most don't seem too. Which is a shame because it's such a great story! Shaka took the small Zulu tribe from less than 2,000 members to around 250,000 in just a dozen years. He took them from being one of many militarily inconsequential bands of Africans living in what is now South Africa to the powerful Zulu Nation - one of the mightiest African military powers on the entire continent. He was a brilliant military tactician who changed the way his people - and many other people - would fight, not only during his reign, but for long after his death. He also seems to have been a sadistic madman who did crazy things like kill thousands of people for not grieving the death of his mother hard enough. And have others killed just for getting pregnant while he grieved. His tale is a wild one. And we use it as an excuse to not just learn a lot about him, but also about the history of South Africa. So much info today - and hopefully also a lot of fun, on another historical edition of Timesuck. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0rdaS70r3jI Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions/problems: [email protected] (copy and paste) Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 10,000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Shaka Zulu, spurned by his father for being an illegitimate child, Shaka, along with his mother Nandi,
0:06.2	traveled from tribe to tribe and his youth seeking stability. And it didn't come easy or quickly.
0:11.6	They'd be taking him by one tribe only to be kicked back out to fend for themselves again,
0:15.8	then taken in again, then kicked out again. Even when they were taking in, life was not easy.
0:21.1	Many of their kids tormented young Shaka, called him names, beat him, made him sleep under
0:25.9	rotting animal skins and more, and all of this early tragedy it hardened him, it sharpened him.
0:31.5	He grew into a powerful and bloodthirsty warrior with the brilliant military mind who would end
0:35.9	up never being bullied again or beaten. Well, not until the very end, not until shortly after he
0:41.6	completely lost his mind and went mad. From his trials and tribulations, a leader was born,
0:47.6	or a monster, or both. We head to South Africa and to the Zulu nation today. Shaka was the son of
0:55.2	Sanzan Kagona, a Zulu king, but not his legitimate son, and being born out of wedlock would lead to
1:01.2	his childhood hardships. His father forced Shaka and his mother out and back to her clan,
1:06.4	who then forced them out again, and then Shaka's father would try to have Shaka killed several times
1:11.2	over the course of his life to keep him from interfering with the succession of his other legitimate
1:16.5	sons. Nandi and young Shaka finally found shelter with the sub clan of the powerful tetwa people.
1:22.4	And when Shaka was a young man, Denghiswayo, a tetwa chief didn't sent Shaka into battle,
1:28.7	and a star was born. And for the next six years, he served with brilliance as a warrior of the
1:33.7	tetwa empire. And then he was given the chance to build his own empire, an empire of the Zulu people,
1:39.6	his father's people. Through several assassination, Shaka would become chief, and he would build what
1:44.6	started out as a tribe of less than 2,000 people into an empire of over 250,000 Zulu. A gifted
1:52.4	tactician, he developed standard tactics, which Zulu would use in battle after battle after battle.
1:58.2	Battles they would win time and time again. And in doing so, Shaka's life became the subject of
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