Cattle Massacre Victims’ Memorial, Bisho
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This memorial is situated near Bisho in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
It commemorates the mass killing of cattle in the Eastern Cape that took place in the 1850s . A Xhosa prophetess had delivered a message from the ancestors saying that the Xhosa must slaughter their cattle (wealth) so that they could rise again anew after defeats by the British colonialsts and mass deaths of their cattle from a lung disease. Following the massacre, some 40000 Xhosa died of starvation.
The inscription reads "HERE REST MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN – INNOCENT VICTIMS OF THE 1856/7 CATASTROPHIC CATTLE KILLING".
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