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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 … Episcopal Church, who passed away in 1929. They had a son. Sontonga was a distinguished and productive poet and, on …

… Africa") in 1927. It had been composed in 1927 by  Enoch Sontonga , who also composed the first stanza. Writing about …

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