The Zulues In South Africa

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living based on cattlebreeding and farming. The majority of the Zulues today live in the villages near by the mines and the cities where they have their work, others work on farms owned by whites. The zulu society has lost a lot of its stability. But one thing they havent lost is the solidarity to their fellow tribe members, and they are all very keen on maintaining their old cultur, inheritated threw generations.
The Zulues are traditionally polygame. They live on farms in huts made of grass and each and every wife has one or two of the huts, one to sleep in an the other one for daily doings. But the women havent only got their own cabins, they`ve got their own corn storage and their own fields too. But snice there are not to much land available, and the women has to grow the land themselves to back up their husbands salary, these kind of farms becomes rearer and rearer. The majority of the marriges nowadays are monogame anyway. The farms are split up in smaller units, and the men ...

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only expressed during dinner. The Zulues sets a lot of their pride in owning caddle, but the demand to share is much stronger than the urge to own caddle. Each and every member of workers can take milk from a cow when ever he wants. Its altso a custum to share the milk outside the farm. The custum called ukusisa, is that a man gives away his cow to a neighbour who doesn`t have a cow, and he borrows it until he can manage to feed his own family whith milk from his own cows. Kings and chiefs have allways used this system to their own advantage. By borrowing people their animals, he made them even more dependent to him, at the same time as he gave them milk and meat. If he wanted to make ...

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