A knobkerrie, also spelled knobkerry, knobkierie, and knopkierie (Afrikaans), is a form of wooden club, used mainly in Southern Africa and Eastern Africa...

old flag design that featured a military emblem of a shield, spear and knobkerrie. The symbolism of the colours is: flag construction sheet The first flag...

weapons. Arnis, fighting sticks in the martial art of the Philippines Knobkerrie, a similar club associated with Southern Africa and World War I British...

fashioned from dense hardwood known in Zulu as the iwisa, usually called the knobkerrie or knobkerry in English and knopkierie in Afrikaans, for beating an enemy...

Zulu king (and prior to 1818, Zulu chiefs) would possess a pink ivory Knobkerrie (a stick with a knob at one end) and also wear jewellery made from precious...

can reach around a raised arm trying to block it to strike the head. Knobkerrie – a war club of southern and eastern Africa with a distinctive knob on...

of an assault upon an attendant, Kanuni began to fight Sivute with a knobkerrie, eventually winning the day. Fearing for her life, however, she fled to...

ikawu: This drum is like a shield made from ox-skin that is beaten with a knobkerrie and is slammed into the ground with high forces. It is traditionally played...

from wood covered in gold foil; a divining bowl, a sceptre (likely a knobkerrie), and a rhino. The second, likely a woman, was buried facing west with...

a Matabele stabbing spear and a Shona digging spear, obfuscated by a knobkerrie. Active 1 May 1916 – 31 December 1981 Country Rhodesia, Zimbabwe from...

from South Africa, in poor health and destitute. He had a carry bag, his knobkerrie walking sticks and a couple of shirts and underwear. He was met and collected...

Cape Argus, Het Volksblad, The Lantern, Excalibur and his own weekly The Knobkerrie. He moved to the Transvaal in 1889 where after working on several journals...

machine guns and cannon, on rebels equipped mostly assegais (spears), knobkerries (fighting sticks) and cowhide shields. It was reported that Bambatha...

indigenous religious sect known as "Israelites" who had been armed with knobkerries, assegais and swords and who had refused to vacate land they regarded...

a Xhosa religious sect known as "Israelites" who had been armed with knobkerries, assegais and swords and who had refused to vacate land they regarded...

Martini-Henry rifles, Winchester repeaters, Lee-Metfords, assegais, knobkerries and battle-axes. As news of the massive rebellion spread, the Shona joined...

allegorical satire the South African protagonist flees a mission with only her knobkerrie, a Zulu fighting stick. She sets out for God, and anytime she comes across...

strikers, who they said were armed with traditional weapons, including knobkerries and spears. Two miners were injured by gunshots and filed criminal charges...

pretending to be friendly Mashona. The four became suspicious of their knobkerries, and started to open fire. The donkey kart was hastily turned around...

Inkosi ya Makosi (king of kings) Gomani II was born Zitonga (child of knobkerries) at Chipiri in present-day Mozambique. His mother was naNgondo, junior...

alcoholic beverages. The wood has a number of uses such as for making bows, knobkerries, traps and other tools. The desert truffle Kalaharituber pfeilii is often...

they had killed and wearing their caps. Eyre's hat was knocked down by a knobkerrie. The British lost four soldiers killed and 10 wounded in the ensuing fighting...

the same time 500 men known as the "Israelites", armed with spears and knobkerries, and led by Enoch Mgijima, gathered in an open field, ready to defend...

1838. The Vow is inscribed on the courtyard wall and surrounded by knobkerries and assegais in the Zulu horn formation. The skylight shining through...

headwoman who had been intimidated, were attacked by a gang wielding knobkerries and pangas. Four men were arrested for their part in the attack. In March...

haul him up to the fourth floor and there batter him to death with a knobkerrie, I do not think there would be many takers. It concluded: In point of...

the enemy or carry a gun. Army recruits were armed with assegais and knobkerries. Although blacks did not serve as frontline combatants, they were still...

cartoonist, caricaturist and publisher of the humorous weekly, 'The Knobkerrie' Jeremias Ziervogel (1802–1883), founding member of the Cape Parliament...

In Smash, teams had to throw a traditional South African club called a knobkerrie from a distance and shatter four suspended pots in order receive their...

Howard Schröder, a cartoonist and publisher of the humorous weekly, The Knobkerrie, whom he later met when a work of his was accepted for publication. Boonzaier...