Two little boys in the southern Basutoland, South Africa East

"Zwei kleine Jungen im südlichen Basutoland" ("Two little boys in the southern Basutoland"). Two boys standing in front of a building. One of them is naked, the other one is wrapped in a blanket. They are holding sticks in their hands. Next to the building another person, hardly visible. Barrels and boxes next to the house. 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).