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Z. K. Matthews (Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews) was born on 20 October, 1901 in Winter's Rush, Cape Colony, is an A 20th-century anthropologist. Discover Z. K. Matthews's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews
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Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 20 October, 1901
Birthday 20 October
Birthplace Winter's Rush, Cape Colony
Date of death 11 May, 1968
Died Place Washington, DC
Nationality South Africa

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1901

Zachariah Keodirelang "ZK" Matthews OLG (20 October 1901 – 11 May 1968 ) was a prominent black academic in South Africa, lecturing at South African Native College (renamed University of Fort Hare in 1955), where many future leaders of the African continent were among his students.

Z.K. Matthews was born in Winter's Rush near Kimberley in 1901, the son of a Bamangwato mineworker.

Z.K. grew up in urban Kimberley, but maintained close connections with his mother's rural Barolong relatives.

He went to Mission high school in the eastern Cape where he attended Lovedale.

1923

After Lovedale he studied at South African Native College in Fort Hare, and in 1923 he wrote the external examination of the University of South Africa.

1924

In 1924, he was appointed head of the high school at Adams College in Natal, where Albert Luthuli was also a teacher.

With Luthuli he attended meetings of the Durban Joint Council and held office in the Natal Teacher's Association, of which he eventually became president.

1928

It was while he was in Natal, in 1928, that he married Frieda Bokwe, daughter of John Knox Bokwe, whom he had met as a student at Fort Hare.

1929

Their son, Joe, was born in 1929 in Durban.

1930

In 1930, after private study, Matthews earned an LLB degree in South Africa, a degree he was awarded once again by the University of South Africa.

He was admitted as an attorney and practiced for a short time in Alice.

1933

In 1933, he was invited to study at Yale University in the United States, and there in the following year he completed an MA. He then went on to spend a year at the London School of Economics where he studied anthropology under Bronisław Malinowski.

1935

He returned to South Africa in 1935 and in 1936 was appointed Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Native Law and Administration at University of Fort Hare.

1940

He had attended meetings as a boy in the company of Sol Plaatje, a senior relative, but it was only in 1940 that he became a member of the organisation.

1943

In 1943, he was elected to the National Executive Committee and at the same time he became a member of the Native Representative Council, a purely advisory body that has been condemned as a “toy telephone” and which Z.K. found generally frustrating, although he found dealing with the Native Education Act of 1945 a “valuable experience” not for the process but for the people he met.

1944

After Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu’s retirement in 1944, Matthews was promoted to Professor and became head of Fort Hare’s Department of African Studies.

Matthews did not confine himself to academic studies; he combined his study of anthropology and the law with an active political involvement.

He found his true political home in the ANC.

1949

In June 1949, Matthews succeeded James Calata as ANC provincial president in the Cape.

1952

In June 1952, on the eve of the Defiance Campaign, he left South Africa, and took up a position as visiting professor at New York's Union Theological Seminary.

1953

He returned home in May 1953, and although not present at the Congress of the People in 1955, he assisted Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein in drawing up the Freedom Charter that was adopted there.

Denis Goldberg credits him with being one of the driving forces behind the proposal for gathering and documenting the wishes of the people for the Charter.

1956

Matthews was arrested in December 1956 and was one of the accused in the Treason Trial.

1958

On his release from the trial in late 1958, he returned to Fort Hare, but resigned his post in protest against the passing of legislation that reduced the university to an ethnic college for the Xhosa community only.

1961

In 1961, he moved to Geneva to become secretary of the Africa division of the World Council of Churches.

1968

In 1966, he accepted the post of newly formed Botswana ambassador to the United States and he died there in Washington on 11 May 1968.