The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe - a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet
Rare and modern books
Edgar, Robert R. And Sapire, Hilary
Witswatersrand University Press,
1999
The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe - a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet
Rare and modern books
Edgar, Robert R. And Sapire, Hilary
Witswatersrand University Press,
1999
19.00 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- 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
- False
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
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.
