1. This article is adapted from Catherine Higgs, The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885–1959 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997; Cape Town: David Philip, 1997; Bellville: Mayibuye Books, 1997), chapters 1 and 3. I thank the publishers for permission to reproduce sections of the text.
2. W. M. Tsotsi, ‘Gallery of African Heroes Past and Present: Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu’, Inkundla ya Bantu (The Bantu Forum), June 1941.
3. Saul Dubow, Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa (London: Macmillan Press – now Palgrave, 1989) pp. 150–1.
4. R. F. Alfred Hoernlé, South African Native Policy and the Liberal Spirit, Being the Phelps-Stokes Lectures, Delivered Before the University of Cape Town, May, 1939 (Cape Town, 1939) p. viii
5. Edgar H. Brookes, The Colour Problems of South Africa: Being the Phelps-Stokes Lectures, 1933, Delivered at the University of Cape Town (Lovedale, 1934) p. 81