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The Xhosa Cattle Killing by Jeff Peires on 19 September 1989

An archived audio recording of a talk presented by Prof. Jeff Peires to the Border Historical Society of East London, South Africa, on the occasion of the annual Mark Taylor Memorial Lecture held on Tuesday 19 September 1989. Click on the links below to get to a specific Section of the talk: 00:00 New introduction by Mike Kenyon - 2025 02:47 Talk by Jeff Peires 03:22 Beliefs of the cattle killers 04:30 What were the beliefs in circulation 04:55 Message of Nongqawuse 05:20 William Wilberforce Gqoba 06:59 Words of the strangers 08:58 Lung sickness - 1854 10:11 Chalumna - Chief Pato 11:53 Extract from book dd 1825 - unknown author 13:40 Creation belief 13:56 Extract from book circa 1805 - probably Dr Hinrich Lichtenstein 15:13 Xhosa source of life 15:58 Gxarha River 16:42 Influence of Christianity 16:55 Mhlakaza - confirmed Anglican 18:27 sifuba-Sibanzi 18:49 Conclusion 19:38 Sensitive topic 20:02 Book Review in the Daily Dispatch 24:45 What is history about? ---------------------------- In 1989 Professor Peires was Professor of History and Head of the Department at the University of Transkei in Umtata. The cassette tape recording in the Society’s archive was titled ‘THE XHOSA CATTLE KILLING’ which subject was directly related to the recent publication of his book titled 'The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856–7'. A new introduction to the archived talk was prepared and recorded by Mike Kenyon, a historian and member of the Society, based in East London in November 2025. ---------------------------- Who is Jeff Peires? Jeffrey Brian Peires was born in Cape Town, South Africa and studied history at the University of Cape Town and subsequently at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1972 to 1975. His academic work largely concerns the history and historiography of the Xhosa people in the Cape. His book about the Xhosa cattle-killing movement ‘The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856–7’, was first published by Jonathan Ball in 1989. Peires' interpretation of the causes of the cattle-moving movement drew extensively on Xhosa sources. The book emphasised the role of Nongqawuse's prophecies and won the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction in 1990. In South Africa's first democratic election in 1994 Peires was elected to represent the African National Congress in the National Assembly of the South African Parliament. He resigned from his seat before the end of the legislative term. He later worked in the Eastern Cape Provincial Government. As of 2022, Peires was emeritus Professor of History at the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape. ---------------------------- The original recording was expertly digitized by VNG Dubbing of Cape Town in September 2025. ---------------------------- The image used as an illustration is the cover of 'The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856–7' by Jeff Peires, published by Ravan Press (Pty) Ltd of Johannesburg in 1989. The illustration used on the cover of the book is an oil painting by Frederick Timpson I'Ons circa 1840, titled ‘Ka**irs Watching for the Return of their Dead Warriors’ in the collection of MuseumAfrica in Johannesburg. ---------------------------- If you find the talk interesting, please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE ---------------------------- Talk loaded on YouTube and sub-titles edited and corrected by William Martinson for the Border Historical Society in December 2025.