Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was born in Uitenhage,Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa- Speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe. He trained as a teacher at the Lovedale Training College after which he was sentto a Methodist mission school in Nancefield, near Johannesburg in 1896. He taught here for nearly eight years.
From Engcobo kwilali yakwaVetyu. It is where the amaMpinga Heritage site and memorial stone is situated under his watchful eye.
AT EMBALISWENI QUMBU DISTRICT EASTERN CAPE. Zonk’indlela ziya Embalisweni / All the Roads to Mbalisweni. Thousands of amaMpinga Clan will gather for their Fourth Heritage Day at Embalisweni in Qumbu where Mpinga had his home and where Mpinga was a resident and a Chief many Centuries ago. It is the place where everybody whose Clan …
AmaMpinga Anglican Clergy Rev. P.P.D Noqhamza with Rev. S Faleni and Traditional Leaders during the unveiling of uMbhala Ka’Nkqoshe’s memorial stone on the 15th of October 2016.
