• Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian 

  Davis, Diana K (The Royal Society of Publishing, 2023-10-04)

  Although nearly erased from history, the first formally trained South African veterinarian was the little-known Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865–1906), son of the Xhosa Reverend Tiyo Soga and his Scottish wife. By detailing ...
• Visit of the great grandchildren of Jotello F Soga to the Veterinary Library, February 12th, 2023 

  Jotello F. Soga Library (2023-02-12)

  On Sunday morning, 12 February 2023, the Jotello F Soga Library at Onderstepoort welcomed special guests, the great granddaughters of Jotello Festiri Soga. The two sisters, Jean Duncan and Pat Thomson from Edinburgh, ...
• Photo of Catherine Burnside Soga and her sister Pearl. 

  (2023)

  Catherine Burnside Soga (right), daughter of JF Soga, with her sister Pearl (left)
• Catherine Burnside Soga 

  (2023)

  Photo of Jotello's daughter, Catherine Burnside Soga, born November 12th, 1894 in King Williamstown, South Africa
• Photo of a poster of Jotello Festiri Soga and his wife, Catherine Watson Chalmers, displayed at an exhibition in Edinburgh 

  (2023)

  Photo of Jotello F. Soga's grand daughters Jean Duncan and Pat Thomson's dad, William Duncan and his two sisters Doris and Cathy standing in front of a poster of Jotello Festiri Soga and his wife. This was taken at an ...
• Bronze bust of Dr Jotello Festiri Soga 

  University of Pretoria. faculty of Veterinary Science; University of Pretoria. Jotello F. Soga Library (2009-05-05)

  The bust of Dr Soga was created by Lusanne Peens. It is a copy of the one commissioned by the CEO of the Agricultural Research Council for the Jotello Soga Ethnoveterinary Garden at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute. ...
• Message from the Chancellor of the University of Pretoria, Prof Wiseman Nkuhlu at the naming ceremony of the Jotello F. Soga Library 

  (2009-05-05)

  The Faculty of Veterinary Science on the Onderstepoort Campus is the only one of its kind in the country and a national asset. It is also the 2nd oldest of the 46 Faculties of Veterinary Science in Africa and the first in ...
• Jotello Festiri Soga : his significance today 

  Van der Westhuizen, Erica (2009)

  Jotello F. Soga was the first South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon (Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh 1886). “Dr Soga played an important role in combating rinderpest and lung-sickness in the ...
• Dr Jotello Festiri Soga : his career 

  Heyne, Heloise (2023)

  Historical summary of Dr Jotello Festiri Soga's career from 22 April 1886 when he registered as veterinary surgeon in Tutuka, Cape Colony to 1902 when he was employed by Carl H. Malcomess to supervise his cattle on the ...
• Dr Jotello Festiri Soga : general history 

  (2023)

  Jotello Festiri Soga was born in 1865 at the Mgwali Mission, in the formerly Transkei, South Africa as the fourth son of Reverend Tiyo and Janet Soga and died on December 6, 1906 in Amalinda, East London, South Africa. ...
• Veterinary Faculty Library named after the first South African who qualified as a veterinarian, Dr Jotello Festiri Soga 

  University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Maritz, Erhardt (2009-05-05)

  The Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Pretoria named its library in honour of the first South African who qualified as a veterinary surgeon. Dr Jotello Festiri Soga studied for the veterinary degree at the ...
• Jotello Festiri Soga : family history 

  Bath, Gareth F.; Veterinary History Society (South Africa) (2020-12)

  We know something about the life and contributions of Jotello Festiri Soga, the first person from South Africa (and probably Africa) to graduate as a veterinarian, and possibly the first Black person to graduate as a ...
• Heart water 

  Soga, Jotello Festiri (Department of Agriculture Cape of Good Hope, 1896-06-25)
• Malarial fever in sheep 

  Soga, Jotello Festiri; Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture (Cape of Good Hope (Colony) : Dept. of Agriculture, 1890-03-27)
• Rinderpest 

  Soga, Jotello Festiri (Department of Lands, Mines and Agriculture, Cape of Good Hope, 1892-12-29)
• Castration - advocating the method of torsion 

  Soga, Jotello Festiri; Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture (Cape of Good Hope (Colony) : Dept. of Agriculture, 1893-07-27)
• Foot-and-mouth disease 

  Soga, Jotello Festiri (Department of Lands, Mines and Agriculture Cape of Good Hope, 1892-12-29)
• Peculiar cases in castration 

  Soga, Jotello Festiri; Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture (Cape of Good Hope (Colony) : Dept. of Agriculture, 1893-07-27)
• Inoculation for lung-sickness 

  Soga, Jotello Festiri (Department of Agriculture, Cape of Good Hope, 1895-06-13)
• Notice no. 150 : fever, belziekte, blauwtong or epizootic catarrh 

  Soga, Jotello Festiri; Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture (Cape of Good Hope (Colony) : Dept. of Agriculture, 1891-03-19)

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