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Episode 4: The exile and death of Langalibalele
In this podcast you will hear the words of Magema Fuze on ‘In August 1874, Langalibalele was exiled to Cape Town’ (part eleven), ‘In 1887 the government of Natal brought Langalibalele back from exile’ (part twelve), and ‘Langalibalele dies in 1889’ (part thirteen).

Episode 3: The trial and defense of Langalibalele
In this podcast you will hear the words of Magema Fuze on ‘Soldiers arrested Langalibalele in Lesotho in late 1873’ (part eight), ‘Langalibalele’s trial and Colenso’s intervention’ (part nine), and ‘Colenso fights for Langalibalele’s rights’ (part ten).

Episode 2: Conflict with the Natal government
In this podcast you will hear the words of Magema Fuze on ‘The amaHlubi start to accumulate guns’ (part five), ‘The authorities are concerned about the proliferation of guns among the amaHlubi’ (part six), and ‘The authorities send Mahoiza to summon Langalibalele’ (part seven).

Episode 1: amaHlubi before colonial times
This podcast begins with an introduction that discusses the backgrounds of Chief Langalibalele Hadebe and Magema Fuze respectively (part one), and then continues with the words of Magema Fuze on ‘The amaHlubi during the reign of the Zulu King Shaka’ (part two), ‘Mtetwa’s name changes to Langalibalele’ (part three) and ‘The Hlubi left the Zulu kingdom and crossed over to Natal, in 1848’ (part four).

Two decades after the Great Xhosa Cattle Killing, William Wellington Gqoba (1840-1888) – the editor of the isiXhosa newspaper Isigidimi SamaXosa – published a two-part history of the event. This podcast discusses Gqoba's second article. The second article begins with the failure of the prophecy. In it, Gqoba offers important critiques of colonial ideas of the prophecy being a ‘Chiefs’ plot’ designed to stoke up resistance to colonialism.

Two decades after the Great Xhosa Cattle Killing, William Wellington Gqoba (1840-1888) – the editor of the isiXhosa newspaper Isigidimi SamaXosa – published a two-part history of the event. This podcast discusses Gqoba's first article. The first article was published in Isigidimi SamaXosa on 1 March 1888. In the article, Gqoba offered a history of the first eight days after the prophecy.