Newspaper editor John Tengo Jabavu dies

Date: 10 Sep 1921
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

John Tengo Jabavu, the founder of the first Black-language newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Native/Bantu Opinion) and political leader dies in Cape Town. He was the father to Davidson Don Jabavu, the first Black professor at the University of Fort Hare.

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