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'''Jotello Festiri Soga''' (1865 - 1906) was South Africa's first black [[veterinary surgeon]]{{sfn|Soga|1983|p=8}} who played a leading role in eradicating [[rinderpest]].{{sfn|Heyne|2009}} |
'''Jotello Festiri Soga''' (1865 - 1906) was South Africa's first black [[veterinary surgeon]]{{sfn|Soga|1983|p=8}} who played a leading role in eradicating [[rinderpest]].{{sfn|Heyne|2009}} The library at the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the [[University of Pretoria]] is named for him. |
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== Early life == |
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Revision as of 11:38, 11 March 2021
Jotello Festiri Soga | |
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| Born | 1865 |
| Died | 6 December 1906 (aged 40–41) Amalinda, East London, Cape Colony |
| Alma mater | Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Known for | Rinderpest |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Veterinary surgeon |
Jotello Festiri Soga (1865 - 1906) was South Africa's first black veterinary surgeon[1] who played a leading role in eradicating rinderpest.[2] The library at the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria is named for him.
Early life
Soga was born in 1865 at the Mgwali Mission, in the former Transkei, South Africa, the fourth and youngest son of Reverend Tiyo Soga and Janet Burnside of Scotland.[3] Soga's father Tiyo had been keen for his children to be educated in Scotland. After Tiyo's death in 1871, Janet relocated the family to Scotland and Jotello and his siblings were educated initially at the Dollar Academy.[4] Jotello Soga went on to study veterinary medicine at Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine from 1882 to 1886. He qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1886, with a gold medal distinction in botany.[1][5][6]
Personal life
Apart from his youngest sister, Jessie Margaret Soga, LRAM contralto singer and suffragist who remained in Scotland, Soga and his siblings all returned to work and live in South Africa. Like his father, though Jotello Soga also married a Scottish woman, Catherine Watson Chalmers in 1892: three daughters, Catherine, Doris and Margaret were born of this marriage. Soga died on 6 December 1906 in Amalinda, East London, Eastern Cape.[2]
Early career
In November 1889 he was appointed as the second assistant to Duncan Hutcheon, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon to the Cape of Good Hope.[7] The first assistant being John Borthwick. He was posted to Fort Beaufort and was also responsible for veterinary services for Victoria East, Stockenström and neighbouring districts. His immediate task was to inoculate against contagious lung-sickness, which was decimating cattle in South Africa. He conducted his own inoculation experiments on lung-sickness and his vaccinating method was accepted as standard thereafter.[2]
Eradication of Rinderpest
The second phase of his career began when the threat of rinderpest was on the horizon in the early 1890s. To the north, cattle were becoming sick and dying by the thousands. "Like some belated biblical plague of Egypt . . . it left a trail of bleaching bones and poverty," said one historian of that period. Dr. Soga was among the first to warn of the dangers rinderpest posed to the Cape Colony. "Our new Colonial enemy is rinderpest," he wrote in 1892, "Lung Sickness and Redwater are simple fools to it."
Memorial
The library at the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria was named in his honour on 5 May 2009[8]
Publications
His publications include:
- Disease "Nenta" in goats, Pretoria, 1891, retrieved 5 August 2014
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- Stamping out rinderpest, Pretoria, 1896, retrieved 5 August 2014
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- Castration - advocating the method of torsion, Pretoria, 1893, retrieved 5 August 2014
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- Rinderpest, Pretoria, 1892, retrieved 5 August 2014
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Notes and references
- ^ a b Soga 1983, p. 8.
- ^ a b c Heyne 2009.
- ^ SAHO.
- ^ "Upcoming documentary on the extraordinary life of South African Dollar FP". Dollar Academy. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ De Beer 1988, p. 169.
- ^ Gutsche 1979, p. 24, 296.
- ^ Vets Past QRS.
- ^ Soga Library.
- Soga, Tiyo (1983). Donovan Williams (ed.). The journal and selected writings of the Reverend Tiyo Soga. Grahamstown: Published for Rhodes University by A.A. Balkema. ISBN 978-0-86961-148-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - De Beer, Mona (1988). Who Did what in South Africa. Ad. Donker. ISBN 978-0-86852-134-3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Gutsche, Thelma (1979). There was a Man: The Life and Times of Sir Arnold Theiler, K.C.M.G., of Onderstepoort. H. Timmins. ISBN 978-0-86978-164-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Heyne, Heloise (10 March 2009), Biography of Jotello Festiri Soga, Pretoria, retrieved 5 August 2014
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- Skorge, Silvia (2003). Clicking with Xhosa. New Africa Books. ISBN 978-0-86486-645-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - "Vets Past QRS". National Directorate Veterinary Services. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- "Janet Burnside Soga". South African History Online. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- "SA's first veterinarian Jotello Soga honoured". SABC. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- "Welcome to the Jotello F Soga Library". Department of Library University of Pretoria. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
External links
- Dr. Jotello F Soga
- Making history: UK’s first black vet
- Biography of Jotello Festiri Soga at the S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science