Rev. Joseph J Doke

Updated: 23 Aug 2019

Summary

Political Activist and a Baptist Church Minister.

Reverend Doke Became acquainted with Gandhi during the plague outbreak in Johannesburg. He was the Minister of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to resign from this position if his pro-Indian sympathies were unacceptable to his congregation. He and his wife nursed Gandhi after an assault on him in 1908. Reverend Doke Edited Indian Opinion in 191,1 during the imprisonment of Gandhi and Polak.

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South African History Online. (2011, February 17). Rev. Joseph J Doke. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0008014

South African History Online (2011) 'Rev. Joseph J Doke', South African History Online, 17 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0008014 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

South African History Online, Rev. Joseph J Doke [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0008014, (accessed 12 October 2026).

"Rev. Joseph J Doke." South African History Online, 17 Feb. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0008014. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Rev. Joseph J Doke." South African History Online. February 17, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0008014.