Nongqawuse
… with Christianity. He returned to Xhosaland in 1853. [1] Nongqawuse’s parents died in the battles of the … to pass on the following ancestral pronouncements, that: 1)the dead would arise; 2)all living cattle would have to be … for the downfall of the Xhosa nation. Endnotes [1] Jeff Peires, The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great …