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Zulu Nation: Ethnicity and Politics

Authors: Horáková Hana

Year: 2007

Type of publication: článek ve sborníku

Name of source: Viva Africa 2007

Publisher name: Dryada

Place: Ústí nad Labem

Page from-to: 113-125

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	Zuluský národ. Etnicita a politikä	Text se zabývá analýzou zuluské etnicity a nacionalismu	politizace etnicity, nacionalismus, Jižní Afrika
eng	Zulu Nation: Ethnicity and Politics	Ethnicity and ?ethnic conflict? have become part of our day-to-day language and thought: however, this ?received wisdom? often tends to obscur reality. The ethnic phenomenon in Africa is highly complex and eludes easy capture through a shared definition. In the case of South Africa, the paper will attempt to show that though Zulu ethnicity was not simply the result of apartheid, the then regime was responsible for the way in which this ethnicity was used for social manipulation. The paper will outline the mobilisation of Zulu ethnic sentiments and ethnic group formation. Moreover, it will pursue the mobilisation and manipulation of a Zulu ethnic identity into a political form. In conclusion, the implications of such mobilisation for the political change in post-apartheid South Africa will be examined.	politicization of ethnicity, nationalism, South Africa