Inga is the last-born daughter of Manelisi HF Ndibongo, the last-born son of the Rev. WPT Ndibongo, minister/ scholar/ missionary/ moderator of the Uniting Reformed Presbyterian Church, and Lucy Nonika MaDuna, teacher/ women’s ministry/ mother. The Rev. WPT chose the surname of Ndibongo during his education at Lovedale College and Fort Hare University (BA Theology, 1929). He was the first-born son of Tenge, wealthy in land and livestock, who settled in Ngqwara. Tenge was the 3rd son of the 2nd wife of Ndibongo, whose father was Maphantsana, the son of Chola. Family history traces to Mpinga (our clan is AmaMpinga), the son of King Ntose, the son of King Malangana, the son of King Njanya II, the son of King Skhomo, the son of King Ndunu, the son of King Mpondomise, the establisher of the AmaMpondomise nation. And so goes the history further back...

Inga’s father Manelisi, as a young man dedicated his life to the liberation of the peoples of Southern Africa. In 1960 he joined the Pan African Congress (PAC) after hearing Professor Robert Sobukwe’s call to peaceful protest against the apartheid government’s passbooks required for all Black South Africans. On March 30, 1960, he was arrested for organising (with 5 others) the March on Cape Town, imprisoned and escaped in 1961 to political exile in Africa and beyond.

In 1965 MHFN met Inga’s mother VH Lundstrom studying at Michigan State University, USA. The rest is another story of life in exile, return to South Africa/ The Transkei, exile again and final return to the new South Africa of 1991...