Nongoloza(born Mzuzephi Mathebula), a Zulu African from Natal, worked for two criminals based on the [1]
The Ninevites were formed by Mzuzephi 'Nongoloza' Mathebula. Nongoloza was the alias adopted by the young Zulu migrant, who having suffered injustice from his past and longing to break away from it to establish a new era. The Ninevites were a gang consisting of other young South African outlaws searching for sources of income through various criminal activities in Johannesburg. The group of Bandits grew across South Africa, and for almost two decades the gang dominated, by 1920 the Ninevites were crushed (Nongoloza was sentenced to prison for attempted murder in 1900).
http://www.wepapers.com/Papers/75510/Nongoloza's_Children_-_Western_Cape_Prison_Gangs_During_And_After_Apartheid_.pdf http://www.bigwebsites.co.za/joburg/content/view/2049/168
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948, by Charles van Onselen, 1984, Ravan Press
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