Shaka kaSenzangakhona, também conhecido como Shaka Zulu, às vezes escrito como Tshaka, Tchaka ou Chaka , foi um chefe tribal e estrategista militar, que transformou os zulus de uma etnia com pouca expressão territorial em um império que ensombrou os desígnios coloniais britânicos. Wikipedia
“Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.”
Statement advocating genocidal policies against tribes which opposed his conquests, as reported in Lessons on Leadership by Terror : Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic (2005) by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, p. 40
“Up! children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! And destroy them all.”
While battling the Ndwandwe, reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 179
“I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees”
Following his mother's death, as reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 319
Contexto: I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them. They know no other will except that of their King, who is something above, and below, this earth.
Advice to King Dingiswayo on the treatment of the defeated Ndwandwe, reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 50