SA’s pioneering veterinarian
Dec 25, 2020
2 minutes
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Jotello Soga was born in 1865 to a Xhosa father and a Scottish mother at the Mgwali Mission Station of the United Presbyterian Church near present-day Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape. He would eventually graduate from the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh, Scotland, making him not only the first South African-born qualified veterinarian, but the first black member of
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