PROPHETESS MANTSOPA MAKHETHA:
She was born in 1795 at a place called Likotsi (Lesotho) and she died at the age of 111. Her death was registered as 11 November 1906.
Over the years, Mantsopa's prophetic powers acquired mythic proportions extending over space and time....
She was credited with foretelling the rinderpest epidemic after Union and World War I, warning Africans against involvement. The sinking of the SS Mendi with the huge loss of African life is attributed to their disregard of this warning...
SS Mendi was a British GRT passenger steamship that was built in 1905 as a troopship..Mendi sank killing lot of people, most of whom were 'brown' South African troops as it was an increase in ritual murders in Lesotho at the time...
Her other prophecies included the coming of the motor car (people would travel sitting down) and the aeroplane (birds would fly between the earth and the sky) as with all prestige myths...
In 1851 she also prophesied that the Basotho would win a battle against the British troops led by Major Warden, she became renowned as a prophetess, living legend and advisor to Moshoeshoe I when her prophesies about successive wars were fulfilled...
(When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams" Numbers 12:6)
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