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Dr Rotoli Xaba's (1893-1953) early history exemplified in an acute form the problems of foreign study for Black South Africans. His correspondence for his period in Edinburgh during the mid 1920's reveals the financial & educational difficulties he faced, prompting cries of despair from his family as well as his sponsors. He found difficulty paying for essentials things as well as paying rent to his landlady. She threatened eviction, but reluctantly because Xaba was well behaved. These difficulties led him to drop out many times until he finally qualified in 1936, gaining the triple Scottish qualification (LRCP and LRCP). returning to Cape Town to practice medicine in 1937. In this 1922 Edinburgh African Society picture he is 3rd from the Back row from left.

@zilevandamme She was a remarkable woman. It's unfortunate that today, most South Africans do not know about her or her contributions.

@HistorySAZAR So happy you are profiling her 🥹 Her name must never be forgotten!

1954: Regina Gelana Twala at the annual Congress Conference, Queenstown. Credit: Bob Gosani/Drum Archives

Struggle against oppression, get organized, and dare to win liberation by ones own efforts ✊️

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The Palace of Justice in Church Square, Pretoria, could be a living monument to our legal history OR it could be an ordinary court building. It depends on you Madame Mayor @nasiphim and Minister @GaytonMcK.

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Fifties Glamour South Africa, Priscilla Mtimkulu, c 1952. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg. If you are interested in the photo or other photos by Jurgen Schadeberg, you can email Claudia Schadeberg at schadebe@iafrica.com. Use HistorySAZAR in the subject line and attach the picture you are interested in.

Birthday celebration, c 1950s-70s. Credit: Daniel Morolong Photographic Collection

South African jazz bandleader, instrumentalist, and impresario, best known as the founder and energetic leader of the famous Merry Blackbirds around 1930s - Peter Rezant, seen at the Bantu Men's Social Centre, c 1954. Credit: Drum Archives

People line up at the Bantu Administration building to apply for passes. Without passes, they are liable for arrest. From The House of Bondage, 1958-66, by Ernest Cole (1940 - 1990)

c 1955: Jazz pianist and composer Emily Motsieloa perfoming with her group at the Bantu Men's Social Centre. Credit: Gopal Naramsamy / Drum Social Histories

c 1963: Winnie Mandela and her Sister outside the Palace of Justice during the Rivonia Trial. Photo Credit: Alf Kumalo/Drum Archives

c 1950s: Dr A.B Xuma (right) singing at a church service with his wife, Madie Hall Xuma, and Bishop Frances Herman Gow. Credit: Drum Archives

Dr Alfred B Xuma's first wife, Amanda Mason from Liberia, attended Wilberforce University and was President of the University's YWCA. Amanda Mason died in Johannesburg while giving birth to their 2nd child (1934). She is seated in the centre on the front row 3rd from the right. Source: The Life of Madie Hall Xuma by Wanda A. Hendricks

Adelaide Tantsi Dube was an accomplished poet and wife to Charles Dube, the younger brother of Rev.Dr John L Dube. She wrote in English, Zulu & Xhosa. She met her husband when they were both students at the Wilberforce University , Ohio. Tantsi completed a BSc from Wilberforce University in 1905 while Charles Dube earned a BA. Her poem 'Africa My Native Land' is about the Natives Land Act of 1913. Source: Pzacad/Ntongela Masilela

Charles Dube (c 1880's - 1938) was a teacher, activist, journalist and businessman. He was a younger brother of Rev.Dr John L Dube. Like his brother he was educated in the United States. He earned a degree from Wilberforce University in Ohio, around 1904. He married Adelaide Tantsi, an accomplished poet, who also earned a degree from Wilberforce University (1905). Dube taught at Ohlange Institute and was active in Natal as a journalist, businessman, unionist & in the AME Church. Source: Pzacad/Ntongela Masilela