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The Natal colonial administration imposed a poll tax of one pound on Zulu men which combined with existing hut taxes and economic crises to spark the uprising. An epidemic between 1896 and 1897 killed ninety percent of local cattle herds while landowners evicted African tenants creating overcrowding on reserved lands.
On the third of April he launched guerrilla attacks using the Nkandla forest as a base against colonial troops. His small force of supporters struck colonial troops repeatedly from this rugged terrain before they were surrounded at Mome Gorge on the tenth of June.
Between three thousand and four thousand Zulus were killed during the suppression phase of the conflict. Only thirty-six colonial soldiers lost their lives in the fighting while more than seven thousand people faced imprisonment and another four thousand received floggings.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi worked as a lawyer in South Africa and encouraged Indian South Africans to support the British war effort against the rebels. Colonial officials refused to let Indians serve as combatants but accepted his offer for stretcher bearers so a detachment of twenty-one men formed a corps commanded directly by him.
The rebellion's outcome increased support among white colonists for uniting Southern African colonies which helped drive the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The cost of suppressing the rebellion reached nearly nine hundred thousand pounds while economic pressures and racial tensions shaped the political landscape for decades following the conflict.