Dilizantaba Mji

Updated: 23 Aug 2019

Summary

Physician, head the Transvaal Youth League, African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee member, one of the first African doctors appointed to Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg

Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he graduated in 1952. In 1950 he participated in the organisation of the June 26 protest, and in 1951 he was elected to head the Transvaal Youth League. In 1952 he was elected to the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee but soon thereafter left the Transvaal to serve his internship in the Cape. In 1953 he was one of the first African doctors appointed to Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg. Banned in 1954, he became politically inactive. He still practices medicine in South Africa.

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South African History Online. (2011, August 27). Dilizantaba Mji. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0067953

South African History Online (2011) 'Dilizantaba Mji', South African History Online, 27 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0067953 (Accessed: 7 October 2026).

South African History Online, Dilizantaba Mji [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0067953, (accessed 7 October 2026).

"Dilizantaba Mji." South African History Online, 27 Aug. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0067953. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Dilizantaba Mji." South African History Online. August 27, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0067953.