Enoch Mankayi Sontonga
… for nearly eight years. Sontonga was the choirmaster at his school, as well as an amateur photographer. He married … and productive poet and, on occasions, preached in his church. As a choirmaster in his school, Enoch Sontonga … official use as the national anthem. On 2 May 1957, the apartheid government declared “Die Stem” as the National …