Pastor Ntabeni and family, South Africa East, 1933

„Elukolweni. Pastor Ntabeni und Familie“ („Elukolweni. Pastor Ntabeni and family“). Group portrait of five persons in front of a house. A woman standing on the left side, wearing a light coloured dress and a cap. Rightmost a man standing, Ntabeni, wearing a suit and under his jacket a plaid cardigan. A bit behind in the middle a girl in a skirt and two shirts standing. Left to her a little boy standing, wearing shorts and a jacket. At the entrance another child sitting, holding something in its left hand. William Samuel Ntabeni, born in 1879 in Magadla (South Africa), was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Church. In 1915 he worked as a teacher in Enobizeni and Mango and as an evangelist in Caba. In 1919 he was appointed missionary assistant. He married Ethel Mtemba.--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).