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Bamangwato academic in South Africa (1901–1968)

Zachariah Keodirelang MatthewsOLG (20 October 1901 – 11 May 1968^[2]) was a prominent black academic in South Africa, lecturing at South African Native College (renamed University of Fort Hare in 1955), where many future leaders of the African continent were among his students.

Life

Early years

Z.K. Matthews was born in Winter's Rush near Kimberley in 1901, the son of a Bamangwato mineworker.

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Z.K. grew up in urban Kimberley, but maintained close connections with his mother's rural Barolong relatives. He went to Mission high school in the eastern Cape where he attended Lovedale. After Lovedale he studied at South African Native College in Fort Hare, and in 1923 he wrote the external examination of the University of South Africa.

In 1924, he was appointed head of the high school at Adams College in Natal,^[3] where Albert Luthuli was also a teacher. With Luthuli he attended meetings of the Z. K. Matthews - Wikipedia KASO