Battle of Ncome River by ISHEMA Toussaint
In this age of advanced technology, where people fell in love without knowing each other through digital communication, there is a similar story that happened in 1838 during the war between the Zulu and the Voortrekker Boers in Azania(South Africa) in the Battle of Blood River, also called the Battle of Ncome River. There was a young woman called Mia who came from the family of Pieter Mauritz Retief who was a Voortrekker leader. In 1814 that young woman (Mia) was studying to be a teacher of young children, and at the same time she was responsible to decode messages of his father's letters from the Voortrekkers' intelligence. one day her letters were accidentally found by a Zulu young Man called Zithulele who was in the Impi(Zulu warriors) against the Boers, he had been privileged to be taught to read and write by the grandson of Jan van Riebeeck. The young man(Zithulele), who was also familiar with espionage in the Impi, came to answer the message. When the young woman (Mia) re...