Nongqawuse

Nongqawuse was a Xhosa girl whose prophecy in 1856 started the Xhosa cattle-killing movement. She said that if the people killed their cattle and destroyed their crops, the dead would rise and the British would be swept into the sea. Tens of thousands died in the famine that followed, and the Cape government used the crisis to seize land and send survivors to work in the colony.