Šaka alebo Čaka bol náčelník kmeňa Zulu .
Zmenil tento kmeň z malého klanu na národ, ktorý vládol rozsiahlej časti južnej Afriky. Dovŕšil formovanie zuluského štátu. Jeho vojenská sila a nová taktika, jeho postupy pri zničení a podmanení si svojich nepriateľov ho preslávili ako jedného z najväčších náčelníkov kmeňa Zulov.
Obsadil väčšinu Natalu, rozbil dovtedajšiu kmeňovú štruktúru a rozdelil obyvateľov do niekoľkých kategórií.
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“Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.”
Statement advocating genocidal policies against tribes which opposed his conquests, as reported in Lessons on Leadership by Terror : Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic (2005) by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, p. 40
“Up! children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! And destroy them all.”
While battling the Ndwandwe, reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 179
“I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees”
Following his mother's death, as reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 319
Kontext: I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them. They know no other will except that of their King, who is something above, and below, this earth.
Advice to King Dingiswayo on the treatment of the defeated Ndwandwe, reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 50