Zulu Culture

ZULU CULTURE 1 When it comes to surviving, Zulu culture is the largest number of community members in South Africa because ten to eleven million of people are in the culture. Men usually have too many wife’s and children to support, this might be the reason why there is a lot of sickness in the Zulu culture. Zulu culture is a Horticulturists society, they live off the land and raise cattle in order to survive. Women are in charge of mostly everything when it comes to harvesting the crops. Women have a huge responsibility within their household, they attend to the crops, bring in water and wood, cook meals and care for their children. The men prepare the ground for the harvest, store the grain, make baskets and mats, look after cattle, hunt and if there is a calling to go to war the men will go and fight. The strenuous physical labor is usually done by the Zulu women allowing men to visit with one another. Back in the mid-twentieth century the woman had lighter physical work than now a days. The region of Kwazulu that’s located on the east coast of Africa is where the largest population is found, they are known to be a society with no religion. Ironically the name Zulu represents God’s people or and people of heaven. They are a spiritual society, having God being the center of their universe, they believe that “there is an element of divine within all things”. (vol.3no8) Zulu culture lives with three principles, which is harmony, ethic that is respect, dignity, justice, balance, harmony, righteousness, wisdom and epic memory, which “is the source of ethical teachings and social harmony”. (p.349)

ZULU CULTURE 2 Rituals of sacrificing of animals are also part of the Zulu culture beliefs. Rituals are done when someone has a debt/promise to pay back to the “Lord of the sky” to show their gratitude when someone from the tribe had an illness in the family and recovered from it. The rituals have step by step procedures they