South African Military History Society

Xhosa prophet Nongqause


Location
Situated in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

In a field on the farm Glenshaw near Alexandria.
Access to the grave is to be arranged through the owner

33 degrees 40 minutes south,26 degrees 26 minutes east

Significance
Nongqause was a Xhosa prophet whose prophecies resulted in a belief that culminated in the Xhosa Cattle Killing and famine of 1856-1857 in which approximately 40,000 people starved to death.

She survived the famine and lived the rest of her life on a farm near Alexandria in the Eastern Cape Province, where she died in 1898.




The person on the left is Mr T.B. (Tom) Bowker. The identities of the other persons are not known

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