A History of South Africa to 1870 by Monica Wilson

Author:Monica Wilson [Wilson, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780429745416
Goodreads: 50547842
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

6 Brownlee, Reminiscences, p. 138.

7 Rutherford, p. 369.

8 Chalmers, pp. 123–8, 138, 142–4, 373.

9 Maclean, Table opp. p. 164.

10 Brownlee, Reminiscences, p. 138.

11 Hunter, p. 505.

12 Stanford, i. 5; Soga, South Eastern Bantu, p. 247, says she died in King William’s Town in 1897.

The question the whites all asked was: Ts this a deep-laid plot to bring about war?’ Brownlee thought at the time that it was. He noted that there was no public discussion—no debate in Sarili’s council—as there should have been on a matter of public importance, before Sarili began killing, and that Sarili was alleged to have said ‘Everyone will fight now’.1 Nonkosi, a little girl of nine, who prophesied near Fort Murray, was said to have been put up to doing so on the orders of Chief Umhala.2 Many of the Thembu were involved also, and messages came and went to Moshweshwe in Lesotho, and Faku in Pondoland.3 The prophecies coincided with crisis in Lesotho, and the governor believed the two to be linked. Walker assumes that a ‘plot’ was proved.4 But Brownlee himself began to doubt as years passed and no evidence of a concerted plan emerged,5 and Stanford was sceptical of any plan for invasion.6 Horses—so important in war—were not killed, but Tiyo Soga noted that guns and assagais were sold to whites and Mfengu, along with ornaments.7

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