James Calata’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African priest and politician
A.K.A. James Arthur Calata, James A. Calata
Was

Politician
From

South Africa
Type

Politics
Gender male
Birth 22 July 1895, Debe Nek
Death 16 June 1983, Cradock, Eastern Cape
(aged 87 years)

James Arthur Calata (1895 – 1983) was a South African priest and politician. He was the Secretary-General of the African National Congress from 1936 to 1949. He was appointed a canon of the Grahamstown Cathedral making him the first Black canon in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

Notes and references

  • Goedhals, M.M. (1995). “Calata, James Arthur”. In Verwey, Elizabeth J. New Dictionary of South African Biography. HSRC Press. ISBN 978-0-7969-1648-8. 
  • Goedhals, Mandy (Feb 2003). “African Nationalism and Indigenous Christianity: A Study in the Life of James Calata (1895-1983)”. Journal of Religion in Africa. 33 (1): 63–82. JSTOR 1581635 – via Jstor. (subscription required (help)). 
  • Logie, Bartle; Snaddon, Ann (2006). Water in the wilderness. Bluecliff Pub. 
  • “Rev. James Arthur Calata”. www.sahistory.org. Retrieved 2013-07-21. 
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