Grave of J.T. Jabavu

John Tengo Jabavu, founder of the first independently-owned Black newspaper, Imvo Zabanstundu, and political leader in the late nineteenth century is buried in the King William’s Town cemetery. From the time of his death to the centenary of the establishment of Imvo in 1984, the grave was without a tombstone. In 1984 the then owners of Imvo, erected a tombstone without family involvement and changed his name to ‘John Ntengo Jabavu’.