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Tiyo Soga

1829–71

Xhosa missionary. Educated at church schools in South Africa; trained as a missionary in Glasgow with the United Presbyterian Church. Qualified as a minister in Edinburgh in 1856. Opened a new mission among the Ngqika (Gaikas), on the Mgwali river, British Kaffraria, thirty miles from King William’s Town, in 1857.

Source

DSAB.

Bibliography

DSAB: Dictionary of South African biography. Edited by W. J. de Kock et al. 4 vols. Pretoria and Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk [and others]. 1968–81.

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