1848 – While visiting Scotland, Tiyo Soga is baptized. He will become a great South African preacher.
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Tiyo Soga (1829 – 12 August 1871) was a South African journalist, minister, translator, missionary evangelist, and composer of hymns. Soga was the first black South African to be ordained and worked to translate the Bible and John Bunyan’s classic work Pilgrim’s Progress into his native Xhosa language.
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