sentences:  Genuinely believing the prophecies of Nongqawuse, Sarili destroyed his cattle and crops, causing thousands of his subjects to do likewise.The famine that followed devastated the last Xhosa Kingdom, forcing the Xhosa to turn to the neighbouring Cape Colony for food, blankets and other relief.His fostering of the cattle killing also led to him being hated in white opinion, as the supposed villain of the frontier conflicts.