Umkosi Wezintaba

[1] Nongoloza (born Mzuzephi Mathebula) also known as Jan Note,[2] a Zulu man from Natal, worked for two criminals based on the Witwatersrand, Tyson and McDonald, assisting them with robbing passenger coaches or carts carrying miners' wages.

[3] Historian Charles van Onselen notes that although Umkosi Wezintaba mainly committed anti-social crimes, the organisation also worked to avenge perceived injustice against its members.

Nongoloza was the alias adopted by the young Zulu migrant, who had suffered injustice from his past and longed to break away from it to establish a new era.

The Ninevites were a gang consisting of other young South African outlaws searching for sources of income through various criminal activities in Johannesburg.

According to Zackie Achmat, Nongoloza did not justify the existence of taking on boy wives based on venereal diseases or tradition, but in terms of sexual desire.