And today's Zulu pics in the news...

[Captain Blood]

So, here is Jacob Zuma the (Zulu) president of South Africa getting hitched to his 5th wife yesterday (Zulus are polygamous, lucky swine)

I don't know how much you can really tell from the ceremonial dress of 21st Century Zulus about their fabled ancestors (they probably get their fancy dress made in Taiwan these days, same as the rest of us), but I noted a couple of interesting things from these pics...

1. Look at the new Mrs Zuma's little shield - it is indeed wobbly like the new Foundry ones, and not perfectly flat and regular, like some unreconstructed folk would have you believe.

2. Leopard / Cheetah skins are not really yellow at all, but a kind of browny off-white.

3. There's a huge amount of colour variation in the monkey tail kilts. Some of them are almost pink.







Right, I'm off to paint bright white trainers on all my Zulus...

[Captain Blood]

By the way, both Jacob and his missus are ever such a light shade of brown - so I'm going back to my original theory about high status Africans being lighter-skinned than the masses.

Which fortunately, is how I painted mine 

Blue people indeed... 

[Bugsda]

I can't imagine them Nikes are authentic, they wouldn't be that white, not in Natal in January

[Dan]

I enjoyed watching that on the news yesterday , lots of wobbly bits to oggle. rather like that really bad Allan Quartermain and the Temple of Skulls movie .
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219671/

[Smokeyrone]

Our old law office had some dealings with King Goodwill, for some reason.  Great guy. 

And yes, my   sheild is uneven, as are most every one I've seen.  (Note the difference as opposed to the perfect shaped cardboard sheilds used by extras in "Zulu Dawn" in background shots)

  Isn't President Zuma   a communist or something?? Or was a commie? 

[Plynkes]

The ANC has historic links with the South African Trade Union movement and South African Communist Party (SACP doesn't contest elections as a separate party but rather fields their candidates under the ANC banner). Zuma is a member of SACP. What of it?

[oxiana]

Right, I'm off to paint bright white trainers on all my Zulus...

Don't be silly - Ian Knight's exhaustive Zulu studies clearly indicate that Cetewayo instructed his impis to wear Converse All-Stars. White trainers indeed!

[JollyBob]

Why do I want to paint some Zulus with fat white trainers, and big alarm clocks round their necks? Make a South African rap collective, ZWA... 

Time to lie down again, Bobby...

[Hammers]

I enjoyed watching that on the news yesterday , lots of wobbly bits to oggle. rather like that really bad Allan Quartermain and the Temple of Skulls movie .
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219671/

I just watched this and , my Lord!, what a turkey! It is such a shoddy production it is worth a review.

[Sangennaru]

Isn't President Zuma   a communist or something?? Or was a commie? 

nope. he is a berlusconi-like populist. no political direction at all.
and he pubblically admitted that he raped a girl (maybe cousin?) many years ago.

[Dan]

I just watched this and , my Lord!, what a turkey! It is such a shoddy production it is worth a review.

Well I did warn you.

[Smokeyrone]

nope. he is a berlusconi-like populist. no political direction at all.
and he pubblically admitted that he raped a girl (maybe cousin?) many years ago.

LOL!  How cosmopolitan.  

That's OK, everyone has their bad mioments.  Even Smokey, for I killed a man in Nashville once. 

 

[Hammers]

lucky swine...

You think? Five times  the trouble, thinks I.

[Hammers]

  Isn't President Zuma   a communist or something?? Or was a commie? 

Razor sharp political analysis, there, Smokey...   

[Smokeyrone]

Razor sharp political analysis, there, Smokey...   

 

That made me laugh!