THE NATAL REBELLION 1906-SOME MILITARY PERSPECTIVES

摘要

The 1906 Natal Rebellion, or Bhambatha's Rebellion, has been dealt with previously in the Military History Journal by Ken Gillings (The Bambata Rebellion of 1906: Nkandla operations and the Battle of Mome Gorge' in Volume 8 No 1, June 1989; and, more recently, 'The "death" of Bhambatha Zondi: A recent discovery' in Volume 12 No 4, December 2002). Without replicating what has already been done, this new article seeks to unravel some of the problems experienced with a non-military approach to the subject of the broader history of the Rebellion, which has largely determined the way in which the event is remembered today, a hundred years later.