s a young boy, bokwe ran errands and worked for dr. james stewart's family. it was also in their house that he learnt to play the organ and the piano. in the same year dr. stewart took him into the general office of the lovedale mission as messenger, and later as his secretary, a post he filled until he left lovedale in 1897. meanwhile, in 1869, he was admitted into the mission's college department, where he was to remain until 1872. okwa pandula oocustoma dhe ndhono dha kala nokulanda iinima ye, yamwe taye mutsu omukumo alonge noku tsikila nuudhiginini. okwa ti shino oshikando she shotango ta talelepo oshitopolwa shomowambo pethimbo lyiipindi, ta ti ita etha we okuya a pindike naanangeshefa ooyakwawo mboka taya kondjitha. "uthi koomasipala abambaxa abakhokelwa yida, kuzakubakho inkqubo exananazileyo apho kuza-- kutyalwa imali kuthutho loluntu. “siyayazi ukuba kubaluleke kangakanani ukunxulumanisa uluntu lomzantsi afrika kwiindawo zokusebenza, ukufunda kwanokudlala,” utsho umaimane."