Zulu King challenges a professor of fighting in South Africa

The great Zulu community in South Africa has challenged a professor and cultural expert in the battle of a stick, saying that he was insulting, along with the entire Zulu nation.

King Misuzulu KazWelithini released the challenge to Professor Musa Xulu in front of thousands of people who gathered in his newly built royal palace for the annual reed dance.

“We are angry and will do anything to protect and preserve our cultures,” he said, according to Timeslive News.

Professor Xulu told the BBC that he took the personal challenge of the king as a joke, but he said he was concerned about his safety if he was attacked by the other Zulus.

“I received threats from the rented killers,” he said, adding that he had made an official complaint with the police.

King Misuzulu did not specify exactly what Professor Xulu said to his anger, but he was transferred to his saying: “It is the authors to see another man telling me how to do my work.”

“It is okay if it is against me, but when it insults me, it insults the nation of Zulu too,” he said, according to IOL, in what was unusually short speech on one of the main events in the traditional Zulu calendar.

The 50 -year -old said: “If his friends are here, then go and tell him that there is a fighting ring – if he wants a stick battle because I can take it.”

Professor Xulu told the BBC that he believed that the king is angry at an interview with local media, in which he said that the transition to the new Emashobeni Palace could be seen as wasted, given that 152 million Rand (9 million dollars; 6.5 million pounds) has been spent on renewing the ENYOKENI Palace where the monkey dance was held since 1984, when it was done. Submit South South.

But “talking about general financing is not an insult.”

“I am not a speaker,” he added, noting that he suffers from a doctorate in Zulu and cultural tourism.

“I have nothing to do with the king.”

Regarding the issue of fighting the stick, he said that this was part of the Zulu culture, but the fighting must be equal and “I am not equal to the king.”

The 64 -year -old also said that he had not done any fighting since he was a teenager.

King Misozolo was crowned in 2022, after a year running after the death of his father, King Godwell Zuelethini shortly, and then his mother shortly after that.

Two of his brothers stabbed Misuzulu’s demand for the throne, but he was recognized by the Royal Zulu and the State of South Africa.

The throne does not have an official political authority, but about five people in South Africa, who number 64 million people, are Zulu, and its ownership is still greatly influential with an annual taxpayer budget for more than $ 4.9 million (3.5 million pounds).

The Kingdom of Zulu has a proud history. It is a global matter for the defeat of British forces during the ISANDLWANA battle of 1879.