Nkosana Mgxaji, one of the best SA boxers never to win a world title, has died in Durban at the age of 61. The almost legendary “Happyboy” was among the very best of the many outstanding fighters from the Eastern Cape. Mgxaji had lost only once in 73 fights when, at the age of 30, …
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.
