"yaye ukuba siqhubeka sithembele kukristu, xa ebuya sinako wamkela ngovuyo endaweni ngesothuso. kwaye thina ukucula, ""kwangokunjalo kakuhle umphefumlo wam."" kuze kube ngethuba langoku, maziswe kakuhle malunga nenkampani yethu. zama ukusinceda kwaye wongeze i--cv yakho. kwiinkampani ezingezantsi. yenza iprofayili yakho ifumaneke ngokupheleleyo kumazwe angaphandle. kwaye ekuhambeni kwexesha, ube ngumhlali ovuyayo kwi--emirates. in 1897, after 24 years of service, bokwe left lovedale mission to collaborate with john tengo jabavu in producing the xhosa newspaper ""imvo zabantsundu"" (""""african opinion"""") in king williamstown. many xhosa south africans were critical of the views expressed by jabavu, in part because jabavu was an mfengu, a group regarded as subordinate to and unrepresentative of the xhosa people. ""izwi la bantu"" (""the voice of the people"") was founded and published in east london, under the editorship of n. c. mhala, in opposition to the ""imvo zabantsundu"" (""african opinion"") newspaper. it was to discourage these accusations that bokwe, a xhosa, went to join jabavu. bokwe's two years on the newspaper, however, were most frustrating and unhappy and this began to tell on his health. in 1899 he left the jabavu and the newspaper business for his wife's home at tsomo, in the transkei, to recuperate.