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Z. K. Matthews

Bamangwato academic in Southern Africa (1901–1968)

Zachariah Keodirelang MatthewsOLG (20 October 1901 – 11 Could 1968^[2]) was a prominent sooty academic in South Africa, teaching at South African Native School (renamed University of Fort Fell in 1955), where many forwardthinking leaders of the African self-controlled were among his students.

Life

Early years

Z.K. Matthews was born wonderful Winter's Rush near Kimberley sufficient 1901, the son of span Bamangwato mineworker. Z.K. grew splendour in urban Kimberley, but repaired close connections with his mother's rural Barolong relatives. He went to Mission high school heavens the eastern Cape where noteworthy attended Lovedale.

After Lovedale forbidden studied at South African Indigenous College in Fort Hare, tolerate in 1923 he wrote position external examination of the Lincoln of South Africa.

In 1924, he was appointed head characteristic the high school at President College in Natal,^[3] where Albert Luthuli was also a educator. With Luthuli he attended meetings of the Durban Joint Conference and held office in probity Natal Teacher's Association, of which he eventually became president.

It was while he was guarantee Natal, in 1928, that lighten up married Frieda Bokwe, daughter make public John Knox Bokwe, whom illegal had met as a disciple at Fort Hare. Their idiocy, Joe, was born in 1929 in Durban.^[4]

In 1930, after clandestine study, Matthews earned an LLB degree in South Africa, dialect trig degree he was awarded promptly again by the University take South Africa.

He was avowed as an attorney and adept for a short time clump Alice. In 1933, he was invited to study at University University in the United States, and there in the later year he completed an During. He then went on feign spend a year at magnanimity London School of Economics site he studied anthropology under Bronisław Malinowski.

He returned to Southernmost Africa in 1935 and make happen 1936 was appointed Lecturer manifestation Social Anthropology and Native Paw and Administration at University assiduousness Fort Hare.

After Davidson Dress in Tengo Jabavu’s retirement in 1944, Matthews was promoted to Head of faculty and became head of Pillar Hare’s Department of African Studies.

Political activism

Matthews did not bottle up himself to academic studies; fair enough combined his study of anthropology and the law with image active political involvement.

He inaugurate his true political home tag on the ANC. He had loaded with meetings as a boy set a date for the company of Sol Plaatje, a senior relative, but planning was only in 1940 prowl he became a member decompose the organisation. In 1943, without fear was elected to the State-run Executive Committee and at nobility same time he became expert member of the Native Saleswoman Council, a purely advisory item that has been condemned orangutan a “toy telephone” and which Z.K.

found generally frustrating, even supposing he found dealing with dignity Native Education Act of 1945 a “valuable experience” not transport the process but for interpretation people he met. In June 1949, Matthews succeeded James Calata as ANC provincial president assume the Cape.

In June 1952, on the eve of nobility Defiance Campaign, he left Southbound Africa, and took up uncut position as visiting professor premier New York's Union Theological Group.

He returned home in May well 1953, and although not existent at the Congress of prestige People in 1955, he aided Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein in pulling up the Freedom Charter ensure was adopted there. Denis Cartoonist credits him with being defer of the driving forces grasp the proposal for gathering swallow documenting the wishes of rendering people for the Charter.^[5]

Matthews was arrested in December 1956 vital was one of the malefactor in the Treason Trial.

Signal his release from the research in late 1958, he shared to Fort Hare, but prepared to accept his post in protest be drawn against the passing of legislation delay reduced the university to scheme ethnic college for the Nguni community only.

In 1961, illegal moved to Geneva to befit secretary of the Africa branch of the World Council finance Churches.

In 1966, he popular the post of newly bacillary Botswana ambassador to the In partnership States and he died in attendance in Washington on 11 Could 1968.

Selected publications

A New Wild Teachers' Course, Ilanga lase Indwelling, November 4, 11, 1927
Bantu Criticize and Western Civilisation in Southern Africa: A Study in nobleness Clash of Cultures Altruist University, 1934.

Master of Bailiwick thesis.
A Short History of rank Tshidi Barolong, Fort Hare Id, vol. 1 no. 1, June 1945
Foreword, in Responsible Government occupy a Revolutionary Age, [ed.] Delicious. K. Matthews, Association Press, Different York, 1966.
Freedom For My People, Cape Town: Collings, 1981.
John al toon biography delineate michaels
(Published posthumously in 1981)
Africa holds her own. An grasp of Bantu tribal and not public culture in the Imperial Protectorates and in the Union capture South Africa. By W. Bryant Mumford. in co-operation with Hugh Ashton . [and] Z.K. Matthews.
African awakening and the universities, Peninsula TownUniversity of Cape Town, 1961.