Nongqawuse was Xhosa woman who made prophesy that by destroying crops and cattle, Xhosa will be free from South African colonial depradation. When prophesy failed to came true, estimated 40000 Xhosa died from starvation and others were forced to work under unfair colonial rule. I am curious how Nongqawuse fared afterward.
Nongqawuse disappears from recorded history in 1858, when she was taken to a women's prison of some sort, but was released shortly afterward.
From "The Dead Will Arise" by J.B. Peires:
Sir Walter Stanford stated with assurance that she was still living on a farm in the Alexandria district near Port Elizabeth in 1905. The settler historian Cory was told in 1910 that she was alive somewhere under the name of Victoria Regina, but he failed to find her. In 1938, however, an itinerant journalist named D.R. d'Ewes stumbled across her tracks in Alexandria. Two elderly Xhosa of that neighbourhood informed him that she had settled down with relatives on a local farm, married and had two daughters. On one occasion, she had gone to live in Port Elizabeth, but when the Xhosa there discovered who she was, she had been forced to flee for her life. She was buried along with her daughters on the farm Glenthorn near Alexandria.
I visited Alexandria myself in the hope of turning up something new, and was introduced to the great-nephew and great-niece of Nongqawuse. The great-niece insisted on telling me in English what she called 'the true story of Nongqawuse' . . . Her brother was a little more helpful. Speaking in Xhosa, he told me that his great-aunt Nongqawuse was 'a very nice lady', and that right up to the time of her death she would warn the people 'against the coming wrath of God'. And so Nongqaquse departed this life as quietly and elusively as she entered it.
Obviously the Xhosa still harbored resentment as they ran her out of Port Elizabeth, but seeing as she stuck by her prophecy it's doubtful she expressed any regret.