ers and speculators were agitating for Zulu territory. The government
appointed a land commission that marked out a number of reserves for the
Zulu and threw the rest of the country open to white settlement, leaving
only about one-third of the former kingdom in Zulu hands (1902-4).
Before the war of 1879, Shepstone had expressed the hope that Cetsh-
wayo's warriors would be "changed to labourers working for wages." His
wish was granted.l?
The Zulu story is one illustration of the process of subordination of
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