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The Zulu Tribe
By Hank, Sam, and Lizzie
Are Zulus Real?
 The Zulus still exist today.
 We do not know the exact date they came to Africa.
 The Zulus have been in Africa since around the 1620s
and the sixteenth century.
Home
 Zulus live in huts that are shaped like beehives.
 They live in South Africa.
 The huts are made from young trees and strong
grass ropes.
Diet
• Tinyama eyosiwe is a burnt meat they ate.
• They also had beef stew called inyama
yenkomo.
• They drank amasi which was a sour milk. They
believed it made you stronger. They also
drank a type of beer.
Modern Day Zulu
• Still the Zulus live in Africa but not in small huts
they now live in larger huts.
• They are free to choose almost everything they
do.
• But they still can follow their ancestor’s cultures.
• The Zulus are not a wealthy tribe.
Religions And Celebrations
•
Some festivals are the Hogbetsotso Festival, the Homowo Festival,
the Panafest festival , and the Aboakyir festival.
•
Many of them
include music dancing and food.
•
The Zulu respect and fear the dead. Their spirits are said to wander
after death.
•
Zulus also believe in sacrifices of animals.
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The Zulus also believe in a God-type figure called Unkulunkulu. He
‘sprung from the bushes and created all animals, water, mountains,
people, the sun and the moon.
Customs
• One of their customs were making beads.
• Another one of their customs were making
wood sculptures.
• They also made pictures.
South African Policy of Apartheid
The South African policy of apartheid made
cruel rules that were unfair to the Zulu tribe
and other people. These rules made it hard for
them to do these things…
1. Vote, they sorted the Africans by color, only whites could vote.
2. They made it illegal for whites to marry Africans of another color.
3. They divided the land up so each color of Africans had a different place to
live but the whites had a much higher amount then the others.
4.Blacks had to carry a pass that had a certain time on it in white people
areas.
IFP
In the 1990s the apartheid was finally over and the
Zulu tribe made a new group called the IFP. That
stands for the Inkatha Freedom Party. The IFP
thought that the African Congress didn’t represent
there tribe interests, and both of them had many
fights about it. In 1999, peace finally came because
the IFP got more African supporters and they got
what they had wanted.
Photo Gallery
Bibliography
• http://library.thinkquest.org/27209/History.ht
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• http://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/zu
lu.htm
• www.clker.com/embed-18147-1018147large.html ( This is were we found the flags.)