Makhanda (prophet) (original) (raw)

Makhanda , also spelled Makana and also known as Nxele ("the left-handed"), (c. 1780 – 25 December 1819) was a Xhosa witch doctor. He served as a top advisor to Chief Ndlambe. During the Xhosa Wars, on the 22nd of April, 1819, he instigated an abortive assault on the town of Grahamstown, in what was then the Cape Colony.