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Title: | The deaths of Hintsa: postapartheid South Africa and the shape of recurring pasts |
Author: | Lalu, Premesh |
Year: | 2009 |
Pages: | 338 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Cape Town |
Publisher: | HSRC Press |
ISBN: | 9780796922489; 0796922330; 9780796922335 |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Xhosa traditional rulers body historiography |
About persons: | Hintsa Tilana Khonoza Mbambatho |
External link: | https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/the-deaths-of-hintsa |
Abstract: | In 1996, as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings, Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from the town of Butterworth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, set off on a journey to retrieve the skull of Hintsa, the Xhosa king. Hintsa had been killed by British troops on the banks of the Nqabarha River over a century and a half before and, it was widely believed, been beheaded. From a variety of quarters including the press, academia and Xhosa traditional leadership Gcaleka's mission was mocked and derided [Book abstract] |