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Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Political Activist, Lawyer and Journalist
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October in Natal. He was the son of Isaka Seme and his wife, Sarah (nee Mseleku). He obtained his primary education at the local mission school where the American Congregationalist missionary, Reverend S. C. Pixley, took an interest in him and arranged for him to go the Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts in the USA. He then attended Colombia University in New York and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A) in April At the same time he won the University's highest oratorical honour, the George William Curtis medal. His topic was “The Regeneration of Africa”. With financial assistance from missionaries, he entered Jesus College, Oxford in England, where he read law in September In June he gained a Bachelor's degree in Civil Law and passed his first bar examinations. The following year he was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, London. While in Britain, Seme and Alfred Mangena, met at the South African Native Convention that had come there to monitor the progress of the draft South Africa Act through the British parliament in Seme later claimed to be a nephew of Umqawe, one of the most powerful chiefs of Zululand, but a conflicting opinion seemed to sug
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Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil and teenager. He obtained his primary school education at the local mission school where the American Congregationalist missionary, Reverend S. C. Pixley, took an interest in him and arranged for him to go the Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts in the USA.
Seme did his BA degree at Columbia and then went to Oxford University where he completed a degree in Law. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in London before returning to South Africa on the eve of the creation of the Union of South Africa in
His memorable speech at Columbia University in on “The Regeneration of Africa” won him the University’s highest oratorical honour, the George William Curtis medal. The speech was circulated widely in South Africa and revealed Seme’s remarkable way with words. While in London in , Seme followed deliberations about the Union of South Africa Bill () that proposed a framework for the establishment of the Union of South Africa. His reaction to this development is articulated in another authoritative view on the future of South Africa.
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