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	Enoch Sontonga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sontonga, a Xhosa, was born in the city of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape.
		For many years the site of the grave of Sontonga was unknown, but it was finally located in the Braamfontein cemetery in the early 1990s.
		On 24 September 1996, the grave of Sontonga was declared a national monument and a memorial on the site was unveiled by President Nelson Mandela.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enoch_Sontonga (309 words)

	Enoch Sontonga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Enoch Sontonga was born in the Eastern Cape around 1873 as a member of the Mpinga clan, a part of the Xhosa-speaking section of the South African nation.
		Sontonga was an artistic man and was also the choirmaster at his school, as well as an amateur photographer.
		Sontonga lived in Pimville, Soweto, and died at the young age of 32 in 1905.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/sontonga.htm (327 words)

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		The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are humble and rather obscure.
		Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born in the Eastern Cape in about 1873.
		In 1994 the National Monuments Council became aware that Sontonga was possibly buried in the historical Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg.
	www.anc.org.za /people/sontonga.html (846 words)

	:: WRITER OF SA'S ANTHEM REMEMBERED :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		IT was a sunny autumn morning and the birdsong matched the tranquillity of the wreath laying ceremony held for Enoch Sontonga at the Braamfontein Cemetery on Monday, 18 April.
		Sontonga, described as a "great son of Africa", died at the age of 33 and was buried at the Braamfontein Cemetery on 19 April 1905, according to the cemetery register.
		Jordan, Walters, the chairperson of the board of directors for Johannesburg City Parks, Pumla Radebe, and representatives of the Sontonga family laid wreaths and at the end of the ceremony replicas of the Enoch Sontonga memorial were presented to the Sontonga family and dignitaries.
	www.igoli.org.za /2005/april/apr19_anthem.stm (1108 words)

	Searching for Enoch Sontonga - SouthAfrica.info
		Sontonga, a teacher and lay preacher, wrote the first verse and chorus of the anthem as a hymn for his school choir.
		A relative of Sontonga's who was present told Mandela that Sontonga was believed to be buried somewhere at the Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg.
		One problem was that in the early seventies, the city council covered much of the long-disused cemetery with a metre of soil, and grassed it over, hiding all traces of the graves.
	www.safrica.info /heritage/sontonga.htm (1031 words)

	Biographies of Famous South Africans - Enoch Sontonga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The humble and obscure life of Enoch Sontonga is an antithesis of the dreams he inspired in generations of Africans through his famous composition "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika".
		Most of Sontonga's songs were sad, witnessing the suffering of African people in Johannesburg, but they were so popular that after his death choirs used to borrow them from his wife.
		Sontonga wrote his songs down in an exercise book, which was lent out to other choirmasters and eventually became the property of a family member, Boxing Granny.
	www.zar.co.za /enoch.htm (863 words)

	Remembering Enoch Sontonga - SouthAfrica.info
		Sontonga wrote the first verse and chorus of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, a prayer for God's blessing on the land and all its people, as a hymn for his school choir in 1897.
		Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, born in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape in 1873, was buried at Braamfontein Cemetery on 19 April 1905.
		Lamenting the loss of Sontonga's exercise book - in which, it is believed, he recorded many of his songs - Jordan appealed to the country's writers, artists and composers to deposit copies of their work with the National Archives, since "we all have the responsibility of preserving our heritage".
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/sontonga100.htm (775 words)

	18 April 1905 - Death of Enoch Sontonga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Enoch Sontonga, the writer and composer of the National Anthem Nkosi Sikelel I Africa died at the age of 32.
		After Braamfontein cemetery, Johannesburg, where Sontonga was buried, was vandalised, the City of Johannesburg invited city officials, archeologists and historians to locate his grave.
		His grave was identified, and Nelson Mandela called for the erection of a memorial to Sontonga on the first post-apartheid Heritage Day.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/chronology/thisday/1905-04-18.htm (147 words)

	SPEECH AT UNVEILING OF SONTONGA MONUMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In unveiling this memorial to Enoch Sontonga, in declaring this Enoch Sontonga Memorial Park, and in naming the Enoch Sontonga Avenue, we are formalising the honour that we have kept in our hearts and, as a united nation, acknowledging an epic contribution to Africa's quest for her dignity.
		Enoch Sontonga stands tall and distinguished among these luminaries, as the architect of our ode to joy and pain, a builder of the nation just born.
		The circumstances of Sontonga's burial, in a segregated cemetery, in an un marked grave with incomplete recourse, is a harsh reminder of the times in which the hymn was composed.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/mandela/1996/sp0923.html (1253 words)

	Culture and Heritage Places: Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, the composer of South Africa's national anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika (God Bless Africa) was born in 1873 and became a teacher at the Nancefield Methodist Mission School in Johannesburg in the late 1890s.
		Sontonga, who lived in Pimville, Soweto, died at the age of 32 and was buried in the 'non-white section' of the Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg.
		In 1925 Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika became the official anthem of the African National Congress (ANC), and in 1994 it became the new national anthem of the democratic Republic of South Africa in combination with South Africa's previous national anthem 'Die Stem'.
	www.southafrica.net /heritage/music/EnochSontonga.cfm (230 words)

	:: JOBURG CELEBRATES SONTONGA ANNIVERSARY :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		ENOCH Sontonga, the man who wrote South Africa's national anthem, "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", died a century ago this year.
		Alan Buff, the general manager for technical support for City Parks and head of the 1996 Sontonga Memorial Committee which found Sontonga's final resting place in Braamfontein Cemetery, says the song was adopted by the African National Congress as a closing prayer at its meetings in the early 1920s, adding to its significance.
		Sontonga's memorial at Braamfontein Cemetery, which was unveiled by former president Nelson Mandela in 1996 on the first Heritage Day in independent South Africa, serves as a reminder of the composer of the song."
	www.joburg.org.za /2005/mar/mar22_enoch.stm (594 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| features National anthem composer honoured
		Under a pine tree in Braamfontein cemetery a group of children from The Sparrow School sing "Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika", interspersing the gospel choir arm-chugging and side-step with a hint of hip hop.
		It is believed to have been composed in 1897 while Sontonga was a teacher and choirmaster at a Methodist school in Nancefield, Soweto, and received its first public airing at the ordination of Methodist minister Rev Boweni.
		Her son, who she named Enoch, beamed in front of the granite cube that was unveiled as a national monument to his great grandfather in 1996, after an extensive search for his grave site.
	iafrica.com /news/features/434006.htm (718 words)

	Enoch Root Definition / Enoch Root Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Enoch Root (Enoch the Red) is a fictional characterA fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction.
		Enoch Root is a Plot Complication of the first order.
		Enoch Root is the same character in both.
	www.elresearch.com /Enoch_Root (345 words)

	International Opus
		Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan of the Xhosa nation, was born in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape, South Africa in about 1873.
		Sontonga died unexpectedly in Johannesburg in 1905, at the age of 32.
		On 24 September 1996, Heritage Day, the grave of Enoch Sontonga was declared a national monument by South African President Nelson Mandela.
	www.internationalopus.com /cgi-bin/io.pl?mode=composer&composer=27 (456 words)

	SABCnews.com - entertainment/culture
		The song was composed by Enoch Sontonga, a lay preacher and teacher, who died in 1905 at the age of 32.
		Nkosi Sikelela' Afrika was adopted by more than 20 other African countries as their national anthems, but later dropped by most.
		"Enoch Sontonga as a choir master and musician probably wrote many other songs in addition to Nkosi Sikelel' Afrika, but this is the only one we remember," said Pallo Jordan, the minister of arts and culture.
	www.sabcnews.com /entertainment/culture/0,2172,102388,00.html (267 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		The older Ikhwezi choristers later delivered a more solemn version of the song as part of a gathering on Monday organised by Johannesburg City Parks to mark the death 100 years ago of Enoch Sontonga, the man who composed the first verse, chorus and tune of the song that means "God bless Africa".
		As guests on Monday prepared to lay wreaths in Sontonga's honour, master of ceremonies Oscar Olifant asked the teenagers, from the Sparrow School in Sophiatown, to sing the original.
		Her son, whom she named Enoch, beamed in front of the granite cube that was unveiled as a national monument to his great-grandfather in 1996, after an extensive search for his grave site.
	mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=235251&area=/breaking_news/... (688 words)

	ANC Today 23 May 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sontonga wrote the first verse and chorus of Nkosi Sikelel' and also composed the music in 1897.
		Confirmation that this is indeed the grave of Enoch Sontonga was subsequently found in a notice in the newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu, which stated that Enoch Sontonga had died unexpectedly on 18 April 1905 in Johannesburg.
		On 24 September 1996, the grave of Enoch Sontonga was declared a national monument and a fitting memorial was unveiled.
	mail.unwembi.co.za /pipermail/anctoday/2003/000100.html (3241 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Sontonga, a Xhosa, was born in the city of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape Province Cape.
		On 24 September 1996, the grave of Sontonga was declared a national monument and a memorial on the site was unveiled by President of South Africa President Nelson Mandela.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Enoch Sontonga.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Enoch_Sontonga.html (350 words)

	:: THE SEARCH FOR THE MAN WHO WROTE OUR ANTHEM :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sontonga, a Xhosa, he was born in Uitenhage in the eastern Cape in 1873.
		A choirmaster and photographer, Sontonga wrote the first verse and chorus of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika when he was 24, one of many songs he wrote for his pupils.
		According to Buff, Sontonga's wife, Diana, sold the rights to the song for a sixpence.
	www.joburg.org.za /jan_2002/anthem.stm (1483 words)

	CNN - South Africa remembers composer of its national anthem - Sept. 24, 1996
		Its composer, Enoch Sontonga, was finally honored Tuesday for his contribution 90 years after his death.
		Sontonga was a South African schoolteacher when he wrote the anthem for his pupils in 1897.
		But Sontonga, composer, teacher, choirmaster and photographer, died in 1905 at the age of 32.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9609/24/safrica.song (549 words)

	SABCnews.com - politics/the_provinces
		The community believes Sontonga's roots are in Uitenhage, and remembered him for contributing towards a united Africa.
		"Sontonga is one of those people who played a significant role in bringing Africans together and made them realise that working together is the only way to save this continent," said Simpiwe Sesanti, from the Kwanobuhle Library Youth Club.
		Although the people of Uitenhage celebrated the life of Sontonga and the original version of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, they feel that more has to be done in educating the youth about the new South African national anthem.
	www.sabcnews.com /politics/the_provinces/0,2172,43713,00.html (234 words)

	Music indaba to reimagine Africa - SouthAfrica.info
		The Enoch Sontonga centenary will be marked by a set of 13 variations on Sontonga's best-known work, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika.
		A liberation song during the apartheid years and now South Africa's national anthem, Sontonga's hymn will be presented in different versions throughout the Indaba, with one per concert.
		South African composers are to contribute to "the final phase" of the Bow Project, the third in the series, with a number of new commissions by the Sontonga Quartet and electronic remixes by local DJs.
	safrica.info /what_happening/arts_entertainment/music-indaba-130605.htm (394 words)

	Grioo.com : Enoch Sontonga, créateur de Nkosi Sikele iAfrica
		Il y a peu de chances que le nom de Enoch Mankayi Sontonga évoque quelque chose pour les africains de tout bord, pourtant, Sontonga a inspiré plusieurs générations d’africains au travers de sa fameuse chanson, "Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika" qui signifie "Dieu bénisse l’Afrique".
		Enoch Sontonga est né vers 1873 dans la province du Cap.
		Enoch Sontonga était lui mort de causes inconnues, le 18 avril 1905.
	grioo.com /info2175.html (730 words)

	Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika: History
		Most of Sontonga 's songs were sad, witnessing the suffering of African people in Johannesburg, but they were popular and after his death in 1905 choirs used to borrow them from his wife.
		The Rev J L Dube's Ohlange Zulu Choir popularised Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika at concerts in Johannesburg, and it became a popular church hymn that was also adopted as the anthem at political meetings.
		For decades Enoch Sontonga was regarded as the national anthem of South Afrika by the oppressed and it was always sung as an act of defiance against the apartheid regime
	www.endarkenment.com /kwanzaa/nkosi/history.htm (288 words)

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