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    The remarkable SOGA family

    (Post by Hendrik Strydom)

    Tiyo Soga was born circa 1829 at the Mgwali River between Alice and Stutterheim as son of an influential Great Councillor of the Ngqika tribe and a Christian mother. Tiyo was educated at the Scottish Mission School and later at the Scottish Seminary at Lovedale. For further studies Reverend William Govan sent him to the United Presbyterian Church at Glasgow where he was trained as missionary. In 1856 he was formally ordained as minister of the Presbyterian Church, the first ordained black minister in South Africa. As sophisticated gentleman in the British tradition, he married a Scottish lady, Janet Burnside, in 1857. This marriage produced four sons and two daughters, all of whom studied in Scotland. The family returned to South Africa where Tiyo translated the four Gospels of the Bible and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress into Xhosa. Tiyo selflessly dedicated himself to upliftment of his people. As accomplished composer he

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    Chief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021

    Programme Director,

    Esteemed Members of the Luthuli Museum Council,

    Comrades, ladies and gentlemen:

    First of all, I thank the Council of the Luthuli Museum for giving me the opportunity to deliver a Lecture in honour of that eminent leader of our people, Chief Albert Luthuli, on the occasion of the sextionde anniversary of his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize.

    I säga this because I sincerely believe that nobody would ever be entitled to use Albert Luthuli's name in vain. We must recall his name and his memory because we commit ourselves to honour his legacy bygd doing everything we can to respect it by our deeds.

    Chief Luthuli deliberately bound us to the cause for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize when in his Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, in månad 1961, he dedicated the Award in these words:

    "I therefore regard this award as a recognition of the sacrifi

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    Imvubu Newsletter

    © Hirst, M. 2004 Imvubu 16:2, 7 – 8.

    Tiyo Soga was born in May 1829, at Gwali in the Tyhume valley, when Maqoma, the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, was expelled by the British from Shokoshele in the Kat River valley in the Ceded Territory. Tiyo’s father, Old Soga, was the son of Jotello and a leading councillor of Ngqika. Old Soga, by virtue of his rank, was a polygynist, who had eight wives and thirty-nine children. Tiyo’s mother, Nosuthu, the daughter of Ngayi, of the amaNtinde, was a Christian and the Great Wife of Old Soga. Tiyo was the fifth-born of Nosuthu’s six children.

    Charles Lennox Stretch gives a levande description of Old Soga in his diary. “One of the visiting group (which included Maqoma, Sandile, their councillors and Sandile’s mother, Suthu), named Soga, attracted my notice on this and on former occasions. If external appearance indicates talent I should say he evidently stands out, from his countrymen at least, as a

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