부산대학교 도서관

The life and career of Nathaniel Cyril Kondile Umhalla is significant in shedding light on the plight and fate of the emerging generation of black intellectuals prior to the establishment of the African National Congress in 1912. In another time and place he would have been a major national public figure and leader. He had a life exhibiting a wide range of skills, interests and achievements. For example, he had a cricketing career as batsman, captain and administrator for over thirty years. At the same time, he was also a talented artist, an educator, a catechist, a law agent, as well as an expert on customary law, a journalist and an historian. He had studied in England, held the franchise in the Cape and was an independent thinker. He early on emerged as a leader from the outset of the civil and political organisations from the 1880s and was also the son of a significant traditional leader who was imprisoned on Robben Island and he himself had been acquitted on a dubious charge of sedition. He died on a mission station in King William's Town (now Qonce), probably in a state of poverty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]