David Rattray | A Guide To The Zulu Battlefields Is What Made David Rattray

David Rattray was the world authority on the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. He will be remembered with the guide book to the Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields, which most say is an eye opener to the great Zulu history and the background information on all the incidents and events of the Zulu war / Zulu dawn.

David Rattary tolled the history of what most people in the land of Kwazulu would like to keep close to their heart s and remember the culture of the Zulus with.

Internationally the Ultimatum Tree, Isandlwana, the Fugitives Trail, Rorke's Drift, Hlobane, Khambula, the death of the Prince Imperial and Ulundi was exposed by him with his ability to transport the battles of the Zulus to life.

David Rattary  was born in 1958, he got educated at at Pridwin in Johannesburg and St Alban’s College in Pretoria and later in 1982 he got an honours degree in entomology at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. David had the opportunity to work as a game ranger as he had deep interest in conservation and later took the love of nature far by creating a game reserve of his own .

David Rattray got the knowledge of the Zulu battles including Isandlwana from childhood at Rorke’s Drift, ( Uthungulu in kwazulunatal some of the places in Natal) he spent most of his days there listening to old Zulu men, who experienced and saw the Zulu people at war.

The famous book he wrote on the Anglo Zulu War is recalled to be the most alive book to entail the Zulu history.

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People have come as far as from Africa and abroad to be part of the exposure to Zulu tradition and the library equipped for his vocation as a raconteur, but most excitingly people were astonishes by the findings that David Rattray made with remotes sites.

He was a lso a great speaker and a storyteller.

David Rattray

David Rattray was murdered on Friday afternoon, the 26th January 2007 at his home at Fugitives' Drift Lodge .