Some Notable Baha'is of Zwide

By: Robert Mazibuko

About the Author

The author is an Information Technologist as well as a Pharmaceutical Production Technician. He has worked as a Pharmaceutical Quality Controller for ten years in South Africa and as a Medical Assistant and a Certified Nurse’s Assistant in the United States for another ten years. He studied two years of Natural Sciences at a university in South Africa but graduated in a B.S, . IT in the United States. Born in South Africa and having lived for a year in Swaziland and settling in the United States in 1987 through marriage, he became there a citizen in the early nineties. From there he has travelled to Europe, Turkey and Israel. He has been a member of the Baha'i Faith since 1962 through Canadian teachers, Rosemary and Emeric Sala. while he resided in South Africa. Having represented South African Baha'is at the International Convention in person once in Israel as a member of the National Assembly in which capacity he served for ten years, he further took pilgrimage and met his wife Gretchen Missselt his married partner since 1987. With her he took another two pilgrimages to Israel and a third short visit there. He served in South Africa also as a Translator and Travelling Teacher from 1968 until he left the country to settle in the United States where he is now retired .