Elias Mzuku and his wife in Xentu, South Africa East, 1933-12-13

"Xentu. Elias Mzuku mit seiner (3.) Frau und jüngstem Kind vor ihrer Wohn-Rundhütte" ("Xentu. Elias Mzuku with his (third) wife and his youngest child in front of their round hut"). A man and a child standing, a woman sitting in front of a hut. The man is wearing a suit and is folding his hands. The child is wearing a plaid shirt and a hat. The woman is wearing a dark dress or skirt and a light coloured headscarf. 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).