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… Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was born in Uitenhage, Eastern Province (now Eastern … in 1896. He taught here for nearly eight years.   Sontonga was the choirmaster at his school, as well as an … were added by the renowned IsiXhosa national poet, Samuel E.K. Mqhayi. “Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika” was first recorded on …

… Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi … Africa") in 1927. It had been composed in 1927 by  Enoch Sontonga , who also composed the first stanza. Writing about … Samuel E. K. Mqhayi …

… of Nkosi Sikelel’i Afrika (composed by Enoch Sontonga ), the song that became the National Anthem of the …