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.
eventREF E-0011434Revised
10 September 1921
Newspaper editor John Tengo Jabavu dies
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Wallis, F, (2000). Nuusdagboek, Human & Rousseau: Pretoria
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