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Herbert Dhlomo

Died in 1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in 1903 at Siyamu, near Pietermaritzburg. Trained at Adams College, he taught in Natal and then in Johannesburg, where he was an active member of the Bantu Dramatic Society, and left teaching in 1935 for journalism. A librarian from 1937 to 1941, responsible for organising the libraries open to Africans, he then settled in Durban and in 1943 became assistant editor of Ilanga lase Natal, which his brother edited. An ANC activist, he supported the election of Albert Luthuli to its leadership. He died in Durban in October 1956.

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