Mothers after children's baptism, Mvenyane, South Africa East, 1933

„Mvenyane. Mütter nach der Kindertaufe (Hintergrund der im Dezember 1933 ordinierte Alfred Mazwi)“ („Mvenyane. Mothers after the children's baptism (background Alfred Mazwi, ordained in December 1933)“). Five women and five children, wearing light coloured clothes and headdresses, next to a building. Each of the women is holding a child in her arms. A man in a suit is standing between the women, holding a book in his hands and looking in it. Alfred Mazwi, born in 1885, was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Church. He worked as a missionary in South Africa East.--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).