Charles Daniel Marivate

He received an honorary doctorate from the Medical University of South Africa in 1993.

In 1989, Marivate relocated back to his home and place of birth, Valdezia village, near Makhado in Limpopo. He continued to work as a medical practitioner in his home village Valdezia from 1990 until 2013 when he permanently retired from medicine.

He obtained the M Prax Med post Graduate degree of Family Medicine, in 1986, at the Medical University of South Africa whilst working as a part-time lecturer there.

He then moved Ga-Rankuwa, working as a medical practitioner from 1964 to 1989. He was the first medical practitioner in Ga-Rankuwa and the surrounding areas, he set up the first medical service in the township and surrounding areas. During this time in Ga-Rankuwa, Dr CD Marivate established a group practice with the late Dr Russell Marivate, DR BZ Nkomo, DR KP Malelane and the late DR George Mukhari amongst others. They provided health services in Winterveld, Mabopane, Soshanguve and Motla near Hammanskraal.

From 1960 to 1964 he was an assistant medical officer at Shiluvane Hospital near Tzaneen.

He was part of the first class of black medical students at Durban Medical School (Pioneer Class) at the then University of Natal, enrolling in 1952 and graduating with a medical degree in 1958.

He obtained a BA degree from the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape in 1950.

He obtained his Teachers Certificate form Lemana College in 1946.

Charles Daniel Marivate (11 July 1924 – 4 December 2019) was a black South African physician who was active in the Ga-Rankuwa and Valdezia areas. He is known as the first medical practitioner in Ga-Rankuwa, serving surrounding areas, at a time where there were no medical services by the then Apartheid government, and few black physicians. He was a member of the first class (pioneer class) of black medical students at the Durban medical school, University of Natal. For his service to the medical profession, he received an honorary doctorate from the Medical University of South Africa, where he had been a part-time lecturer and chair of council as well.