ABSTRACT
On 18 October 1913 Dinuzulu ka Cetshwayo, son of the last Zulu king, died in exile on a farm in the Middelburg district of the Transvaal. In response to the condolences of the government conveyed by the local magistrate, Mankulumana, his aged adviser, who had shared Dinuzulu’s trials and had voluntarily shared his exile, remarked with some justification:
It is you [meaning the government] who killed the one we have now buried, you killed his father, and killed him. We did not invade your country, but you invaded ours. I fought for the dead man’s father, we were beaten, you took our King away, but the Queen sent him back to us, and we were happy. The one whom we now mourn did no wrong. There is no bone which will not decay. What we now ask is, as you have killed the father, to take care of the children. 1
