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Jordan Ngubane

Died in 1985

Jordan Kush Ngubane was born on 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith, in Natal. A graduate of Adams College, near Durban, he was an editor at Ilanga lase Natal, then at the Bantu World in Johannesburg, before editing Inkundla ya Bantu. Close to Albert Luthuli, whom he had met at Adams, he went to Swaziland in the early 1960s, under pressure from the regime, then left in 1969 for the United States, where he taught at Howard University in Washington. He died on 17 September 1985.

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