Caption: Figure 1: Map of South Africa showing study area,
Umtata (now Mthatha), in the province of Eastern Cape (by courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., copyright 2009; used with permission) [14].
In the first visit the focus group sessions (two groups in
Umtata and one group in Port St Johns) were limited to the numbers advised within the focus group literature, namely about 8 members each (cf.
Intracranial suppuration: Review of an 8-year experience at
Umtata General Hospital and Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
The "animal autobiography" (Derrida 2002: 405) that attends Naude's "Dead Nguni beside the Road Outside
Umtata" (a scene of animal survival and death) describes the dire, exposed, and resilient lives of any number of poverty-stricken human settlements on the edge of passages of indifferent transition.
(27) Jean Isaac, Louise Kretzschmar, Margie Pigott, and Nelda Thelin, "A Case Study: The
Umtata Women's Theology Group," in Women Hold up Half the Sky: Women in the Church in Southern Africa, ed.
[19] Victoria Hospital at the Lovedale Mission and
Umtata Hospital were provincial hospitals and were therefore state aided.
"We lived in a less grand style in Qunu, but it was in that village near
Umtata that I spent the happiest years of my boyhood and whence I trace my earliest memories."
July 18, 1918 -- Born to Hendry Mphakanyiswa, a Thembu chief, and Nosekeni Qunu in the
Umtata district of the Transkei, at a time when virtually all of Africa was under European colonial rule.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in a village near
Umtata in the Transkei.