UKUFA KUKASHAKA, African Treasury Series No. 14

58pp., paperback, New Edition, Johannesburg, (1960) 2021

New introduction by Mpume Zondi, in both isiZulu and English.

Historical drama in isiZulu, on the assassination of Zulu king Shaka by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangana, aided by his paternal aunt, Mkabayi in 1828.

Elliot Zondi (1930–2005) was a human resources manager for a multinational company, and later a lecturer in the isiZulu Department at the University of Natal. His second play, Insumansumane, about the 1906 Bhambatha Rebellion, was published in 1986.