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How were the different names of the Zulu amabutho given to them?
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Any good literature on the topic of the Zulu War 1879 gives us names of the different ibutho involved in the battles, names such as uKhandempemvu, uMxapho, uDududu and iNgobamakhosi. Men were so identified by their ibutho that some of them were known by the name of their ibutho years and years after the war. But what do they mean? How were these names selected and given to the different ibutho that were formed?
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