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Edgar, Robert R. And Sapire, Hilary

The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe - a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet

Witswatersrand University Press, 1999

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Year of publication
1999
ISBN
1868143376
Place of printing
Johannesburg
Author
Edgar, Robert R. And Sapire, Hilary
Publishers
Witswatersrand University Press
Size
8.5 x 5.5 inches
Keyword
South Africa, Religion, Biography
Binding description
Soft Cover
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Languages
English
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, trace of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 190pp. Nontetha had a series of visions in 1918 in South Africa's eastern Cape when the influenza epidemic was sweeping the world. Her preaching that this was a punishment of God and that she must lead her people to reform their ways caused the government to commit her to a mental asylum. Sixty years later the author and historian learnt of her fate and arranged for her body to be transferred from a pauper's grave to her home village.