The most spoken language in South Africa is Zulu. There are 10,677,305 Zulu speakers in the country and approximately 80.9% of them live in KwaZulu-Natal.
Missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) arrived in Port Natal in 1835. Newton Adams was among this group who distinguished themselves as the first translators of the Zulu Bible.