"Gosen. Pastor Levi Ngqakayi und Frau mit zwei Nichten" ("Gosen. Pastor Levi Ngqakayi and his wife with two nieces"). Four people: Three women and one man (apparently Levi Ngqakayi) are standing with their back to a wall. Two of the women are wearing the same dresses with a belt. The other woman is wearing a light coloured dress. All of the women have short hair, one is wearing a cap. The man has a beard and is dressed in a suit. Levi Ngcakayi / Ngqakayi, born in 1879 in Silo (South Africa), was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Brethren and a teacher. He started his work as a mission assistant in 1919. He married Helene Ndasuka.--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).
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