"Xentu (vgl. 9465). Links Johnson Silinga im Gespräch mit einer Frau, Mitte junge Mädchen, Rechts junge Männer" ("Xentu (cp. 9465). On the left side Johnson Silinga in conversation with a woman, middle young girls, right young men"). Fourteen young women are standing in front of a house, wearing mainly light coloured skirts or dresses. On the left side a man in a suit and with a hat (apparently Johnson Silinga) and a woman dressed in dark clothes are standing. On the right side five other people in suits, standing and talking to each other. Johnson W. Silinga, born in Baziya (South Africa East) in 1893, was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Church. He was a mission assistant from 1927 onwards.--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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