Pixley seme towards a biography of cancer
Pixley seme towards a biography of cancer diagnosis.
Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil and teenager.
Pixley seme towards a biography of cancer
He obtained his primary school education at the local mission school where the American Congregationalist missionary, Reverend S. C. Pixley, took an interest in him and arranged for him to go the Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts in the USA.
Seme did his BA degree at Columbia and then went to Oxford University where he completed a degree in Law.
He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in London before returning to South Africa on the eve of the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
His memorable speech at Columbia University in 1906 on “The Regeneration of Africa” won him the University’s highest oratorical honour, the George William Curtis medal.
The speech was circulated widely in South Africa and revealed Seme’s remarkable way with words. While in London in 1909, Seme