"Dingarn's conduct was worthy of a savage as he is. It was base and treacherous, to say the least of it – the offspring of cowardice and fear. Suspicious of his warlike neighbours, jealous of their power, dreading the neighbourhood of their arms, he felt as every savage would have done in like circumstances that these men were his enemies, and being unable to attack them openly, he massacred them clandestinely."
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Extract from Reverend Francis Owen's diary entry for 6 February 1838, the day of the Retief massacre.
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Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu (c. 1795 – 29 January 1840), commonly referred to as Dingane or Dingaan, was the second king of the Zulu Kingdom, which was founded by his half-brother Shaka.
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