Milner Langa Kabane Fort Hare Alumni, GCOB (18 June 1900 – 1945) was an educator, newspaper editor (Imvo Zabantsundu), human rights activist and a pioneer of the first "Bill of Rights" version in South Africa, which was unanimously adopted by many progressive organisations including the African National Congress in 1943.
Kabane studied at Heald-town and was one of the first three students to graduate from South African Native College (University of Fort Hare), earning a bachelor's degree and a teaching diploma in 1925.
Returning from Yale, he went to teach at the Bloemfontein Bantu High School in the Orange Free State from the late 1930s and it was in that province where he became active in politics.
He was instrumental in organising and formulating the first version of a document titled Bill of Rights and the Atlantic Charter from the African’s Point of View.
[6] The full document is available in the ANC archives[7] Early Years Milner Langa Kabane was also acknowledged by international academics and philosophers like W.E.B.
Du Bois is internationally recognised for leading the Pan Africanist agenda among the African diaspora in the Americas and Europe.
Other invitations were also forwarded to John L. Dube, D. D. T. Jabavu, Milner Kabane of Imvo Zabantsundu as they were recognised as progressive South African Political leaders.
He was survived by his wife and 3 children (Temba, Nozipho, and Helen) In 2017, the Democratic Republic of South Africa recognised his contribution by awarding him the National Order of the Baobab posthumously, one of the highest in the country.