Enoch Sontonga, a Methodist mission school teacher, composed the first stanza of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika as a Xhosa hymn in 1897.
Enoch Sontonga, mudyondzisi wa xikolo xa Methodist mission, utsarile stanza xosungula xa Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika tani hi risimu ra kereke ra xi Xhosa hi 1897.