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Sol Plaatje - English
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Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a Maralong of the Mabina-Noto Clan of the Baralong tribe, and was born in 1875, near Boskop, Orange Free State. He and his family were loyal adherents of the Lutheran Church, and he obtained his early education at the Pniel Mission Station, under the late Rev. G.E. Westphol, a Lutheran missionary. Leaving Pniel, he became a post messenger at Kimberley; but he continued to study and later passed the Cape Civil Service examination.

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Sol Plaatje House - Index - English
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Background information on Sol Plaatje Article on Sol Plaatje Address by Prof Kader Asmal on the occasion of naming Sol Plaatje House Talk by Prof Kader Asmal, to the Learners of Vryburg High School (14 January 2000)

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Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje - English
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African linguist, journalist, writer and statesman. Sol Plaatje was born in Boshof, Orange Free State, South Africa. He was a great linguist, speaking his native tongue: Tswana (the chief language of Botswana) as well as English, Afrikaans, High Dutch, German, French, Sotho, Zulu, and Xhosa. He translated a number of works from Bantu into European languages, and works from English into Tswana (most notably Shakespeare)

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SOL PLAATJE - English
URL: http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v2/v2i1a8.htm

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932) was one of the foremost African leaders of his generation in South Africa. As the first general secretary of the African National Congress (ANC), founded in 1912, Plaatje was a prominent political spokesperson, interacting regularly with government officials and other leading whites in both South Africa and Great Britain. Plaatje was much more than a political figure, however. Prior to the formation of the ANC, he was a court interpreter at Mafeking, where he became caught up in the famous siege during the Anglo-Boer War (1). After the war he became editor of two successive newspapers, Koranta ea Becoana (Bechuana Gazette) and Tsala ea Becoana (The Friend of the Bechuana), both published in Setswana and English. As one of the band of pioneering African newspaper editors, he viewed his role as that of a "mouthpiece" for his people. It was this role that brought him to prominence and led to his selection as ANC general secretary.

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Biography of Sol Plaatje - English
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Short biographical details of Africans prominently involved in the Anglo-Boer War

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Project Gutenberg Titles by Plaatje, Sol - English
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Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion

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Plaatje, Sol T. - English
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Plaatje, Sol(omon) T(shekisho) - English
URL: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0020255.html

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South African novelist, journalist, and political campaigner. Plaatje is best known for Mhudi: An Epic of South African Native Life a Hundred Years Ago (1930; written c. 1920–21), the first novel in English by a black South African. In 1912 he was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC; later the African National Congress (ANC)). He also produced works on the Setswana language, including a Setswana–English dictionary, and translations of Shakespeare into Setswana.

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