John Tengo Jabavu, Bantu newspaper editor, preacher and the second Black matriculant in South Africa was born in Healdtown district, now in the Eastern Cape Province.

Sources:

Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.

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