Elijah Mdolomba

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Elijah H. Mdolomba was a South African politician and reverend. He was the Secretary-General of the African National Congress from 1930 to 1936.{{cite web |title=Elijah H. Mdolomba |url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/elijah-h-mdolomba |accessdate=21 October 2014 |website=South African History Online |publisher=}}{{cite web | url=http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=4174 | title=Secretary General | publisher=African National Congress | accessdate=21 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008101353/http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=4174 | archive-date=8 October 2014 | url-status=dead }}

Biography

Mdolomba was born in the Cape Colony and received his education at Healdtown. He became an ordained reverend.{{Cite journal |last=Denis |first=Philippe |date=2017 |title=A Case of Pastoral Myopia? The South African Church's Ambiguous Response to the Erosion of Family Life in the Early Years of the Migrant Labor System |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44723471 |journal=The International Journal of African Historical Studies |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=439–460 |issn=0361-7882}}

In the 1920s, Mdolomba served at the helm of the African National Congress in the Cape Colony. He went on to serve as Secretary-General of the ANC, and was succeeded by James Calata.

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