A teenage girl of the Pedi people in the Transvaal, she began secretly following the Christian instruction of an Anglican mission, against her parents' will. Beaten and kept from catechism, she held firm. Her parents led her one day to a lonely place and killed her; she had not yet received baptism by water.
In their own words
I shall be baptized with my own blood.
Words reported by those close to her
Never.
Reported reply, when asked if she was afraid to die