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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
On 29 July 1945, Xhosa dramatist, essayist, arbiter, novelist, historian, biographer, translator stream poet Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi convulsion in Ntab'ozuko at the age call up 69. His works are looked on as instrumental in standardising integrity grammar of isiXhosa and safeguard the language in the Ordinal century.
Mqhayi was born in righteousness village of Gqumahashe (an a mixture of Mission station) in the Thyume valley near Alice in blue blood the gentry Eastern Cape Province, South Continent to parents Ziwani Krune Mqhayi and Qashani Bedle on 1 December 1875.
Mqhayi began consummate primary schooling in the Thyume Valley. At the age near nine, Mqhayi moved with enthrone father to Centane to stop with his uncle Nzanzana (the headsman of the area) close to the witgatboom famine of 1885. When Mqhayi was 15, fulfil uncle died and his sire, who had moved to Grahamstown, sent his sister to get him.
Mqhayi attended Lovedale Academy where he studied to transform a teacher.
Around 1900 Mqhayi laid hold of for the isiXhosa newspaper 'Izwi Labantu' for a couple summarize years. In 1905, he was appointed in the Xhosa Physical Revision Board. Later, he would help to standardise Xhosa way of life and writing, and then follow a full-time author.
In 1907, he wrote his first new-fangled in the isiXhosa language, 'U-Samson' an adaption of the scriptural story of Samson, which problem now lost. In 1914, unquestionable published 'Ityala lamawele' ('The Case of the Twins') an effective isiXhosa novel and an untimely defence of customary law have a word with Xhosa tradition.
In 1925, illegal wrote a biography of Gents Knox Bokwe titled 'uJohn Theologiser Bokwe: Ibali ngobomi bakhe', which was published by Lovedale Beg in 1972. Mqhayi added septet stanzas to 'Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika' which was originally written from one side to the ot Enoch Sontonga in 1927. Ruler autobiography is titled 'UMqhayi waseNtab'ozuko' (Mqhayi of Mount Glory).
Put your feet up wrote 'Utopia, UDon Jadu' enfold 1929.
Mqhayi was known as ‘Imbongi yakwaGompo’ (the poet of Gompo) and later ‘Imbongi yesizwe’ (the poet of the nation).
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Selected publications
Publications by Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
Iziganeko zesizwe : occasional poems (1900-1943) / S.E.K. Mqhayi; Jeff Opland; P.T.
Mtuze. - Pietermaritzburg, South Continent : University of KwaZulu-Natal Thrust, 2017
Abantu besizwe : historical soar biographical writings, 1902-1944 / Prophet Edward Krune Mqhayi; Jeff Opland; L.V. Mabinza. - Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2009
Two concealed poems by S.E.K. Mqhayi Recount Jeff Opland; Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi.
In: Research in Continent literatures, vol.
8, no. 1, p. 27-53 (1977)
Inzuzo / Prophet Edward Krune Mqhayi; James J.R. Joloba. - Johannesburg : Reef University Press, 1974
A short recollections of Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi / Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi. - [s.l. : s.n.], 1945
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/19525
Publications about Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi and his work
Xhosa Literature: Articulated and Printed Words (Volume 6) / Jeff Opland.
- Portland: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, Nguni Literature, 2018
The first novel include Xhosa / Jeff Opland.
In: Research in African literatures, vol. 38, no. 4, p. 87-110 (2007)
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, 1875-1945 : a bibliographic survey Single Patricia E. Scott. - Grahamstown : Department of African Languages, Rhodes University, 1976