Henry Melville Taberer (7 October 1870 – 5 June 1932) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test match in 1902.
Taberer represented Oxford University in 1891 and 1892 but did not gain a ‘Blue’, which is awarded to those selected for the annual intervarsity match against Cambridge at Lord's.
[4] Taberer had an intermittent cricket career in South Africa, appearing for Natal, Transvaal and Rhodesia.
Taberer was born on a mission station and was a fluent speaker of the languages used by the local population: he claimed to speak them more fluently than he did English.
[4] It has been suggested that because of Taberer's role “it was no surprise, therefore, that the NRC also sponsored the new Native Recruitment Cup played for by provincial African cricket teams, once the earlier ‘Barnato’ competition, which had included cricketers of all ethnic groups, had folded.”[3] Taberer was the Secretary for Zululand in 1894, an acting magistrate in Eshowe, Zululand in 1895.