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John Tengo Jabavu died on this day in 1921. Frame 1 is an image in the biography his son DDT Jabavu (pictured in frame 2) wrote about him. JT was among the first three Black people to matriculate in South Africa. He led the campaign that helped form the Fort Hare University.
JT founded the first Black owned newspaper in the late 19th Century in 1884. But uTata was very problematic shane. He supported the Natives Land Act if 1913 which alienated him from public intellectuals like Plaatje and Rubusana.
His newspaper was funded by white liberal politicians so as much as the paper was about public issues unlike where he previously was an editor with Isigidimi SamaXhosa (umkhozi wakhe Elijah Makiwane was its first Black editor) he didn't really rock the politics boat.
And because he didn't really rock the boat, because he wrote about why the Black electorate need to trust the white liberal politicians like Rose-Innes etc. WB Rubusana founded Izwi Labantu (lol it was funded by Rhodes 
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JT even supported the color bar clauses 
WB decided to run for the Cape Provincial Council, JT even wrote about why the African electorate didn't need to vote for him, that their votes were safe with white liberals. Mess. But his role in education was immense. We have UFH.
WB decided to run for the Cape Provincial Council, JT even wrote about why the African electorate didn't need to vote for him, that their votes were safe with white liberals. Mess. But his role in education was immense. We have UFH.
The founding of Fort Hare, thanks to JT was linked to the South African government's discomfort with the number of Black people attending university in the US thanks to church sponsorship. The govt was worried they'd be radicalized over their and launch a liberation struggle.
JT saw this as the perfect opportunity to pitch a Black university and successfully so. He is also responsible for making sure that Black women also benefitted from the establishment of Fort Hare by insisting on Black women's enrollment.
Here's a layout of the first Black owned newspaper, founded by John Tengo Jabavu. It was founded eQonce.
His son, DDT went on to become professor at Fort Hare, becoming the first Black professor in South Africa among other career achievements.
He even supported the Afr*k*n*r Bond 
