Moses Josiah Madiba is born

Moses Josiah Madiba, the author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, was born at Uitvlucht, Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district. He was the first secretary of the Maune branch of the Transvaal African Teachers' Association in 1930. In 1964 he received the British Council Visitor's Grant which enabled him to study primary and secondary teacher training in Britain as well as the teaching of English to foreign students. He was a lay preacher and first president of the new synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church after the merging of the Northern and Southern Transvaal synods in 1963. He died on 2 January 1985 in Seshego, Pietersburg district.