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Sandile
Sandile was paramount chief of the Rharhabe Xhosa from 1840, the son and heir of Ngqika. He led his people in the frontier wars of 1846–1847 and 1850–1853 against the Cape Colony, lost much of his land after the cattle-killing of 1856–1857 and was killed fighting the British in the war of 1877–1878.
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