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John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January 1859 near Healdtown in the eastern Cape. In 1875 he graduated from the Methodist mission school at Healdtown and became a teacher at Somerset East.
While teaching, he began to write articles for some South African newspapers and he apprenticed himself to a printer. In 1881, Jabavu was invited by Reverend James Stewart of the Lovedale Mission School to become the editor of the institution’s Xhosa-language journal, Isigidimi samaXhosa (“The Xhosa Messenger”)
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