ABSTRACT
South African educator and writer. Davidson D.T. Jabavu was the son of John Tengo Jabavu (1859-1921), one of the most eloquent representatives of the educated African elite in SOUTH AFRICA in his generation. A Mfengu Methodist, John Tengo was South Africa’s first black newspaper editor, and his paper Imva Zabontsundu reflected the outlook of those seeking African political, educational, and economic advance within a multiracial South Africa. He could irritate white opinion; the paper was closed for a time after it attacked British policy in the Anglo-Boer War in the matters of the concentration camps for Boer families and the treatment of Africans. At that time J.T.Jabavu left the Wesleyan Methodist Church in protest at its acceptance of such wartime excesses, and joined the SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.
