1955 Professor Zachariah Keodirileng Mathews, Lawyer

1955 Professor Zachariah Keodirileng Mathews, Lawyer, Anthropologist, Politician, Author and Ambassador. He was born in 1902, the second eldest of seven children of seven children. His father was a labourer on the diamond mines and owned a cafe in later years. He entered Fort Hare and became the first black to receive a B. A. degree in South Africa. He then began his teaching career at Adams College in Natal. While teaching he studied law and after graduating with L. L. B degree he left teaching to set up in a practice as an attorney but accepted a scholarshp at Yale University in the United States of America. He graduate with an M. A. degree. (Photograph by Drum Photographer @ Baileys Archives) professor

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