Wofunsidwa: Moses Kamsali Banda
Wofunsa: H.G. Falwasser
Tsiku: May 8, 1927
Malo: Johannesburg, South Africa
Ulendo: 1915
Bambo Moses Kamsali Banda analowa m’dziko la South Africa kudzera Messina mchaka cha 1915. Iwo analowa m’dziko la South Africa ngati mzika ya Mozambique. Iwo anagwira ntchito mu ngodi wa mu mzinda wa Brakpan kwa zaka zisanu ndi zinai (9).
Iwo mu chaka cha 1925 anasuntha nakagwira ntchito mu ngodi wa kopa mu m’zinda wa Messina.
Mu mzaka za 1927, iye mmene ankafuna kulemberanso ntchito kuti agwirenso ntchito m’migodi, banja lake linali likukhala mu m’zinda wa Louis Trichardt, iwowo akugwira ntchito kum’mwera ku Lydenburg.
Born in Chinteche, Kamsai Moses Banda first entered South Africa at Messina in 1915. Masquerading as a Mozambican, he worked at a Brakpan mine for 9 years. In 1925, he moved to work on the Messina copper mines. By mid-1927, when he applied to be re-employed on the mines, his family lived in Louis Trichardt while he was working further south in Lydenburg.
I. Moses Kamsali Banda TP 34228 K of Louis Trichardt, Transvaal, do hereby make a statement and declare:-
II. That I left Nyasaland in 1914 and came to the Transvaal via Messina. I was recruited with Shangaan boys for the mine in 1915 and was allotted to the Brakpan mines. I worked on that mine as a hammer boy underground for 9 years.
In 1924, I applied to the Director for Native Labour for permission [to work] on the mines, and the permission was granted. (Note: Tropical Register shows that Moses Kamsali Banda pp.433683 M/Banoni applied for permission to be employed on mines and was authorised on the 20/5/24.)
I produce herewith a piece of the passport I worked on at the Brakpan mines from 1924 to December inclusive. The passport was inadvertently washed in my coat and this is the only part of it I could keep. (pp.573844 M/Benoni coy no: 2183.
[Note: I asked Mr MacMaster to ring up Benoni for particulars of the pp. no: coy 2183:- The following are particulars given by Benoni pass office:
First Name:- Kamsali
Also known by:- Moses
Surname:- Banda
Chief:- Mazumba
Kraal:- Mzimba
Magistracy:- Chintechi B.N.P.
This native was registered as a Transvaal native as he was so previously registered to the same mine under passport 433683 M/Benoni when he was allotted to that mine by the WNLA.]
III. That I October 1925 I worked on the Messina Copper Mine till Sept 1926 when I was made to pay Transvaal Native tax by the S.N.A Louis Trichardt. I am a married man and my family is living at Louis Trichardt. My mine no at Messina was 186. I have no intention of returning to Nyasaland. I was working at Lydenburg for three months during this year.
I pray for permission to be re-employed on mines.
Re-employment on mines approved Director previous no:28A/1924 and no: 18/1927 to be quoted on every subsequent pass issued to this native
Director of Native Labour [stamped 8 May 1927]