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19th August, 1932.

Mr. J.D. Rheinallt Jones, 7/itwatersrand University,

Johannesburg.

Dear Mr. Rheinallt Jones,

Rev. Sil i l o 'r boy I understand has passed his first year in the Port Hare medical c o u r s ^ t h a t entitles him to enter the second any BritishUniversity, as I understand it. <^7Mr. Sililo has not the wherewithal! to send him to England, hut he thinks he could finance a-course in the Johannesburg University Medical School.

When I was fighting for a native medical school, in a British Medical Association meeting in Durban about two years ago, I was told, that we have medical schools here in which natives are eligible and cannot he kept out legally. I am urging Mr. Sililo to have his hoy present himself at the Johannesburg University Medical School and. demand admission as a medical student. So far as I can see at present for them to make this demand of the Johannesburg University is the best way to bring up the subject for consideration, and I believe th have a ripht to enter there.

Mr. Sililo is very hesitant about t a M n g any such assertive step. I have advised him if there is any difficulty about his son getting into the Johannesburg University r0 take the matter up with the joint Council in Johannesmirg. If my aavice is not good, why I will allow you to advise Mr. Sililo otherwise.

I am asking him to write you putting the wtv'le situation before you.

Yours sincerely,

New Scotland,Pi e te r mari t z burg.

19th August, 1932

Mr. J.D. Rheinallt Jones,Witwatersrand University,

Johannesburg.

Dear Sir,

I have a son who has passea his matriculation examination of the Joint Board of Matriculation, of the S.A. Universities, in the year 1931. He then took a pre medical course for a year up to June 1932 at Port Hare. He is very anxious to qualify as a medical practitioner, ana be enabled to work among his own people.

I have endeavoured to send him overseas hut find it impossible to meet the heavy expense without being aided.

He came hack from College at the end of June, because I expected him to sail early in September so as to begin in October.

Would it be possible for him to be admitted in the South African University to be enabled to qualify as a medical practitioner ? If that was possible I may get the required assistance.

Dr. McCord has suggested th°t I write to you on the matter. I would greatly appreciate an early reply on the whole subject.

Yours faithfully,

Ube Christian Hpostoitc Church in Zion of South Hfrica.

H e a d q u a r t e r s : J o h n B r a n d S t r e e t a n d 12t h A v e n u e , A l e x a n d r a T o w n s h i p .

General Overseer

of South A frica,Tt p D M it -0. Box 4909,1 h e K e v r . M . M a b i l i t s a .

Johannesburg, . August 2s r£ . / 9 J ? .

Mr. J .D .R b e in a llt Jones,S.A . In s t i t u te o f Race R e la tio ne , a t the H n ire rs ity ,JQgANKESHJRG.

Eear s i r /I herew ith w rite t h is le t t e r to you appea ling fo r a h e lp * * *

in a great onus th a t con fron ts me. I hare a eon P h i l ip , who i s a t present^, a t Fort Hare tak ing h i s Rre-medical Course l ig t .Y e a r Bsc*), which he s i t s fo r t h i s ^orember.

I contemplated o f sending him overseas to complete h is course, hut the time i s so had th a t i t i s almost next to im possible to do so. I t is my ardent desire that he i&culd complete h i s Medical Course and there i s no o ther hope than h a r in g recourse to endeavouring to get him complete h is course here in South Afr i ca#

I hereby make an appeal to you to try i f poss ib le , to scire the problem o f a t ta in in g access fo r him to the " itw a te rs Rand U n ire rs ity , thus enab ling him to f i n i d i h i s course. I t Je not an eaj*y- task th a t I— w?132 S M * 3® s*®6 * bone you w i l l do the beet you can* to wccour me. I a ia l l be much ob liged by your service a, and greatly^ indebted to you.

I hare the honour to be a ir ,

Your obedient eerrant

The Secretary for Health, Union Department of Hsalth, Union Buildings,PRETORIA.

Dear Sir,

UATIV& MED 10 A I. TRAINING

This Institute has been receiving a number of apoeala from iativss for ist*nce in securing medic?! training.But the Institute has no means at its disposal to help in such cases. In several instances the assistance of the .Institute has been sought in order to press for t h e . admission o * into the existing medical schools, but as the Institute n •w*re of the embarrassment which would be c?used to the Tuiversities bv such action its influence has been used to dissusde «p licants .from pres iflg their legal rights. *

There is no doubt whatever that the heavy cost of medical training overseas and the serious dangers -unrounding Hativ# •students in H;urop« are important considerations m the * question of the provision in South Africa of facilities for fu .l medical training. The following resolutions have been passed by representative oodles on this matter.

1 The C o l o u r ad-European Conference of over three hundred delegates representing some two hundred and fifty organisations, which met at Cape Town in June last,adopted unanimously the following resolution:-

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"The Conference appeals for the recognition of the "just claim of the Coloured people to the ministry "of their own members in medical and nursing care;"and presses for the provision in Capetown and other "urban areas of special hospitals for Coloured "people where Coloured medical men may receive staff "appointments, medical students receive training and "Coloured women receive qualifications in general "nursing and the opportunity -vhen trained of ministering "to their own people."

2. The National p.’uropean Bantu Conference, held at Bloemfontein in July last, of two Hundred and fifty d©le&»tes representing about one hundred and forty organisations parsed the following resolution:- 6

'•That t . 1 Conference urges ur>on the Union "overnment "the necessity for providing immediate facilities for "the full radical tr-.ining of Nntlve students in this "country."

This matter comes uo at all sorts of meetings in various iarts of the country and it is clear thnt there is a^very strong feelin.• not only nmongst the Mative people but Iso amongst Eurooeans interested in Native welfare that it wo-Id be infinitely preferable to htve Native students trained in South Africa than that they should go overseas.

I have ms e applications to the Minister of Native Affairs fro.: ti :e to time for asUstance in soecific cases but I have always been informed that the Sinister is considering the possibility of bursaries being made *■ vailable but -that there are no prospects of any funds being orovided,

' I un-.ierstnnd that there in en.i.int^r- ep&rtaental com nit tee al ti z moment considering the question of native medical training I venture to urge that the committee rr?eomT!snd the Minister to make a afinite statement on the '.atter ct the earliest oosslble opportunity.

Yours faithfully.

A PVT ■'!#-

JDRJ/LH.

CAPE PENINSULA JO IN T COUNCIL OF EUROPEANS AND BANTU

President: COL. T H E H ON. SIR W A L TE R STANFORD; Vice-Presidents: HIS GRACE T H E ARCHBISHOP OF CAPE T O W N : T H E R IGH T HON.

our Executive decided that we should ask you whether there is any

way known to you whereby ROTOLI XABA, whose case is outlined on the

attached paper, might get aid to complete his medical course. WeA/

shall try the Rev.Marsh, but his very strong Metpdist Churchmanship

is said to limit his wonderful generosity. R.Xaba comes of a

Wesleyan family and is presumably a Wesleyan, but that is the one

point not yet exactly ascertained.

In his favour is the fact that all his papers - personal and

professional - are in order. Ihave seen the originals and copies

could be produced if there were any likelihood of a generous pa­

tron.

The disturbing fact is that he is now 36 years of age and has

not completed the course. Some of our Executive thought that this

must exclude him from further hope, but most of us felt that he and

his family had shown perseverance and grit, and that his failure to

conquer the Final in 19£9 would not necessarily imply lack of merit.

SIR CLARKSON TREDGOLD,

SIR JAMES ROSE-INNE' IE. ESQ. : T H E REV. D. WARK. D.D.

Telephone No.: W o o d s t o c k 8 7 2 .

3 3 . Y O R K S T R E E T .

w o o d s t o c k . c.p 21st Nov,, 1932

Dear Mr. Rheinallt Jones

After considerable weighing of the matter

Yours sincerely

Hon.Sec.

Case of ROTOLI XABA.

BORN: 1896. At Willowvale, Transkei.

EDUCATION: Early Schooling in the Transkei.

Academic education completed during 4 years in U.S.A.

(Was advised to take medical training at Edinburgh.)

MEDICAL TRAINING: Admitted to the Edinburgh School of Medicinel920.

Followed the Five Year Course; 1930-1929.

Expenses provided by his Father, a Teacher in

the Transkei, and by his own earnings in the

vacations.

Reached the end of the Five Year Course in 1929,

BUT FAILED in the Final Exaamination that year,

and was called back home by his Father's very

serious illness. Father now in broken health, old

with a tiny pension; can do no more for the son.

Present Work: R.Xaba has been in S.Africa since July, 1929. At

present he is acting as dresser under a doctor

in Idutywa, Transkei, earning £3 a month. The

doctor recommends him as a competent and trustwor

thy helper.

Hopes: The Bunga (Transkei Native Council) is likely to

grant him a scholarship of £50 to resume his

studies at Edinburgh, as no course is available

in S.Africa. With a loan (or a gift) of £100

he would have enough for the expenses of a

final two years there.

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Dear Dr. Fraser,

I venture to approach you on behalf of & Native etudent named J. Stewart Sililo who is anxious to enter the School of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh . He is a son of a minister of the Bantu Presbyterian Church stationed at Sew Scotland, Maritzburg and the youth has been a student at Fort H*»re. Early in the year he applied to the Universities of Oapetown and Johannesburg for admission as a medical student but neither University is prepared to admit Kon-European students although both are urging the Minister of Education to do something to help Hon-European students. As you may know a Government Committee of which Dr. Loraa was Chairman in 1928 recommended the establishment of a medical school for Non-Europeans in connection with the existing Medical Sohool at Johannesburg but so far nothing hat been done.

Later Sililo applied to the University of Glasgow and it was only at the end of September that he learnt that he could not be admitted. He then applied to the University of Edinburgh and has new received a reply that his application for admission to the medioal course thare in April 1933 will be considered in due course. I gather that all applications will be considered after February 28th in which oase it will be very difficult for Sililo to reach Scotland by the beginning of April.

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In view of the great disabilities from which Native students suffer in their efforts to secure medical training I am venturing to appeal tc you in this particular case in the hope that you may find it possible to use your great influence with the Faculty of Medicine at Edinburgh to secure special consideration for Sililo’s application. I do hope that British Universities will give preference to Non-European students from South Afrioa as against other overseas applicants since it is only by leaving their own country that the former can get any medical training whatever,

We have appealed to the Minister of Native Affairs to help by the granting of bursaries to enable Native students to proceed overseaswbut there seems no hope of this being done so that every application from a South African Native represents a tremendous financial effort on the part of his relatives and any help that can be given in influencing British Schools of Medicine to give special preference will be greatly appreciated.

I shall be grateful for your advice as to whether it would be possible to have a special committee set up in Great Britain which might assist South African Non-European students (Native, Indian and Coloured) in securing admission to British Medical Schools and in advising students during their training.

Any assistance you can give in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

ADVISER

Collection Number: AD1715

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS (SAIRR), 1892-1974

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