She went on to study science at South African Native College, Fort Hare in Alice in the Eastern Cape.

The South African Native College, later the University of Fort Hare, was founded in 1916 on the site of a former British military garrison.

The College offered European style higher education and alumni include Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Robert Mugabe.

As the first black women to do this her story was reported in the press.“Before she sailed for Europe she was met at nearly every railway station by teachers, journalists and clergymen who wished her Godspeed”.

[7] The Principal of the School of Medicine, Professor John Orr accepted her application and arranged for her to be admitted as a medical student to Anderson’s College, Glasgow, where she studied anatomy and physiology, with further classes then being taken at St Mungo’s College, Glasgow, both part of the extramural school.