Contents
IIIustrutions
Preface
Note
Introduction: Some Moments, Figures, and Themes in South African History
PROLOGUE FOUNDERS OF THE INHERITANCE: “LET ME GO BACK”
Introduction
The Development of the Kingdom
The State of the Kingdom
PART 1 CULTIVATING THE PAST: “THIS IS GOD’S PLACE”
Introduction
Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, “The Necessary Clown”
Hayibo, Mityi’s Stepbrother
Mityi, the Neglected
Mityi, the Creator
Mityi, the Queen
PART 2 AMBIGUOUS PROMISE: “IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING, IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING”
Introduction
Noplani Gxavu, Malikophu’s Daughter
Emily Ntsobane, The Deadly Pumpkin
PART 3 THE THREATENED DREAM: “THE LAND WAS SEIZED”
Introduction
Mdukiswa Tyabashe, So Tall He Touched the Heavens
From the Blue Region
The Hunter and Master of Magic
The Dreamer
Struggle for the Throne
The Sacred Snake
The Woman Who Would Be King
Shaka Invades the Mpondomise
A Land Divided
Conflict with the Thembu
Like a Woman Carrying Children on Her Back
Freedom-fighter
Flight
Mtshophane Mamba, Snapping at the Water’S Foam
Ndumiso Bhotomane, The Land Was Seized: The Ngcayechibi War of 1877
Ashton Ngcama, The Land Has Grown Old
Ashton Ngcama, Tears in Your Stomach
PART 4 UNCERTAIN HOPE: LIGHTING “AN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRE”
Introduction
Ndumiso Bhotomane, She Spoke about the Resurrection: Nongqawuse and the Cattle Killing of 1857
Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, No Person Arose
Sondoda Ngcobo, Chakijana, the Trickster
Sondoda Ngcobo, Chakijana, Zulu Freedom-fighter
Frederick William Calverley, So Everybody Was After Chakijana
P.W. van Niekerk, The Whites Were to Be Killed
EPILOGUE SEIZERS OF THE INHERITANCE: “THE STORY IS PAINFUL”
Introduction
Death of the Father
Destitute
Seizers of the Inheritance
Coming of Age
Death of the Mother
Independence
Return
Jabulani Alone
When You Are Grey
Now I Am Spent
Notes
Sources
Index