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Abdurahman, Abdullah, 1872-1940

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Personal name headingAbdurahman, Abdullah, 1872-1940
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Associated countrySouth Africa
Birth date18721212
Death date19400220
Place of birthWellington (South Africa)
Place of deathCape Town (South Africa)
AffiliationCape Town (South Africa). City Council African Political Organisation University of Glasgow Teachers' League of South Africa
Profession or occupationPhysicians Politicians
Found inDr. A. Abdurahman, 2002: p. 9, etc. (Abdullah Abdurahman, b. in Wellington on 12 Dec. 1872; d. 1940)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed October 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Abdurahman, Abdullah; medical doctor, eclectic physician, political figure; born 12 December 1872 in Wellington, South Africa; graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow (1893); the first black person to be elected to the Cape Town City Council (1904); chair of the Streets and Drainage Committee (1923-1937); the first Coloured person to be elected to the Cape Provincial Council (1914); elected president of the African Political Organization (APO) (1905); was instrumental in the establishment of the Trafalgar High School, the first to offer secondary education to Coloured students (1911); played a role in the founding of the Teachers League of South Africa (1913); participated in South African Native and Coloured People's Delegation to Britain to protest the racially discriminatory clauses in the draft South Africa Act (1909); jointly convene four Non-European Conferences with D. D. T. Jabavu between (1927-1934) to mobilize opposition to prime minister J. B. M. Hertzog's segregationist policies; the only black member of the Wilcox Commission (appointed in 1934); president Nelson Mandela awarded him postmortem the Order for Meritorious Service, class I (gold) (1999); died 20 February 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa)