Evangelists in Baziya, South Africa East, 1933-12-09

"Baziya. Evangelisten. Links E. Mzuku der rechts hat Holzbein der bucklige Kutscher: Hintergrund rechts (Kaleb mit Namen)" ("Baziya. Evangelists. On the left E. Mzuku the one on the right has a peg leg the crooked coachman: Background right (with the name Kaleb)"). Seven men are standing in the front. Most of them are wearing heads. Some are holding books in their hands, others sticks. In the background another man standing next to a building with plants at its side. He is leaning on a big stick. Other buildings and trees are around. Elias Mzuku, coming from Tembuland, was an Evangelist in Xentu (South Africa).--Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).