disease essays

disease essays Nobody knows how long there have been people living in the southern part of the African mainland. Experts dates foundings of irontools in the Swaziland to the 4th century. Sailors who were shipwrecked outside the coast of South-Africa had contact with people who earned their living by farming and cattlebreeding. Later on when the Europeans arrived to South-Africa, they found a people on the east coast of Natal who called themselves" A ma zulu". These people were tall and very atleticly build, they could take great effort in both hunting and war and their knowledge to the nature was incredable. The Zulu tribe was once one of South-Africas biggest and most powerful tribes and they managed to stand up against the British until they lost the Zulu war in 1897. The tribes defece system was wery simmular to the system we have in Norway today. The troops were devided into regiments according to their age. And they got military training in diffrent parts of the country, just as we do in Norway today. The Zulues want to keep their tradition and identity alive, but they have a lot to struggle against. The lack of land and the demands from the whites way of life has disturbed their old way of living based on cattlebreeding and farming. The majority of the Zulues today live in the villages near by the mines and the cities where they have their work, others work on farms owned by whites. The zulu society has lost a lot of its stability. But one thing they havent lost is the solidarity to their fellow tribe members, and they are all very keen on maintaining their old cultur, inheritated threw The Zulues are traditionally polygame. They live on farms in huts made of grass and each and every wife has one or two of the huts, one to sleep in an the other one for daily doings. But the women havent only got their own cabins, they`ve got their own corn storage and their own fields too. But snice th...