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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Crowds of Xhosas gathered at the pool</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the Gxara River in the Transkei<br>a pool between some trees and flowering plants<br>is linked with one of the most emotional<br>and painful stories in history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the pool a young medium named Nonqawuse<br>spoke with the ancestral spirits<br>while bathing and looked into the water<br>seeing their faces.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They promised to drive the white man away, <br>provided that the Xhosa nation <br>would destroy all their own cattle and crops.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Xhosas were disturbed by news<br>of this revelation <br>and travelled from near and far<br>to speak to her <br>and her witchdoctor uncle Mhlakaza.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crowds of Xhosas gathered at the pool<br>with its red flowering aloes<br>peering into the water, <br>with a lot claiming to see<br>the faces of their ancestors there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some people even claimed <br>to see whole armies of ancestors<br>eager for war against the white man<br>and only waiting on the Xhosa people <br>to follow their instructions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the insane instructions was followed through<br>with cattle being slaughtered<br>and most of the crops being destroyed<br>and only the very small Ngqika<br>section of the tribe not adhering to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The majority of Xhosas<br>waited in vain on 18 February 1857<br>for the sun to rise blood red, <br>the land to be filled with fat cattle, <br>new crops to appear<br>and vast armies of spirits<br>to go out in battle<br>against the white man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a tragic dawn<br>with the Xhosa nation facing starvation<br>and ironically the Xhosas survived only<br>through the white man <br>reacheding out a hand of friendship<br>and feeding them<br>and by the compassion<br>of some neighbouring tribes<br>who had been oppressed by them before<br>and it’s estimated <br>that some twenty five thousand people<br>did die from this tragedy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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