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The Rev Zolile Mbali obituary

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Zolile Mbali was born in Johannesburg to a Xhosa father and a Sotho mother.

He was forced to move from his native South Africa in the early 1970s .

Zoli moved to the UK in 1969 on a World Council of Churches scholarship to Oxford on Tutu ’s recommendation.

He met a British woman, Charlotte Lebon , a postgraduate student at St Hugh's College .

The couple became engaged, but the apartheid ban on mixed relationships prevented Charlotte from joining him.

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89

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formal

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English

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54

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long-living

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