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Created: 2025-05-30 16:04:30 UTC

Dr Rotoli Xaba's (1893-1953) early history exemplified in an acute form the problems of foreign study for Black South Africans. His correspondence for his period in Edinburgh during the mid 1920's reveals the financial & educational difficulties he faced, prompting cries of despair from his family as well as his sponsors. He found difficulty paying for essentials things as well as paying rent to his landlady. She threatened eviction, but reluctantly because Xaba was well behaved. These difficulties led him to drop out many times until he finally qualified in 1936, gaining the triple Scottish qualification (LRCP and LRCP). returning to Cape Town to practice medicine in 1937. In this 1922 Edinburgh African Society picture he is 3rd from the Back row from left.

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