Noel Mostert
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Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People
Noel Mostert
In the 1850s, in despair after sixty years of disastrous wars and British betrayals that had cost them most of their ancestral lands, the Xhosa—South Africa’s most important and sophisticated black nation—gave way to a strange and dangerous teaching. Prophets among them declared that salvation lay in killing all their cattle, their most prized possession, and destroying all their food stocks. If they did this, the prophets said, on a certain day everything would be returned to them by supernatural agency and in much greater abundance—huge new herds, copious…
