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    Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (9 October 1876 – 19 June 1932) was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. Plaatje...
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  • Ernst Westphal, was with his wife Wilhelmine the teacher and mentor of Solomon Plaatje. Already as a child E.O.J. Westphal was fluent in German, English,...
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    the Northern and Southern Sotho languages were distinct from Tswana. Solomon Plaatje, a South African intellectual and linguist, was one of the first writers...
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    the new South Africa. In this sense, singing it is a political act. Solomon Plaatje, author and founding member of the ANC, was the first to have the song...
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    Sol Plaatje University is a public university located in Kimberley, South Africa. Established in 2014, it is the first and only university located in...
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    Little Maymie de Mena George Alexander McGuire Isaiah Emmanuel Morter Solomon Plaatje Robert Lincoln Poston Alice S. Presto Thomas Vincent Ramos James Robert...
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    others, including John Knox Bokwe (a partner in the company 1898–1900), Solomon Plaatje (July–November 1911), and Samuel E. K. Mqhayi (1920–21). Jabavu's sons...
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    The Sol Plaatje Museum and Library is in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, in a house where Solomon T. Plaatje lived during his last years at 32...
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  • Solomon Patrick Mabilo is a South African politician from the Northern Cape who served as the Executive Mayor of the Sol Plaatje Local Municipality from...
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    could be used to negotiate political rights at a later date.: 65  Solomon Plaatje of the South African Native National Congress would assist in the recruitment...
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  • Ojer Ally Queen Labotsibeni Mdluli Alfred Mangena Harriette Colenso Solomon Plaatje Walter Rubusana Chief Kgalusi Leboho Charlotte Maxeke Dr Abdullah Abdurahman...
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    on precast columns. The house was purchased by 'Plaatje Jubilee Trust' and given to Solomon Plaatje who was born in 1876. Type of site: Residential,...
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    1080/1369801X.2016.1222300. "Land and belonging: On the tomb ya ga Solomon Plaatje". In Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present (ed. Janet Remmington...
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    13135/1825-263X/2872. Seddon, Deborah (January 2004). "Shakespeare's Orality: Solomon Plaatje's Setswana Translations". English Studies in Africa. 47 (2): 77–95....
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    became increasingly involved in South African affairs. She supported Solomon Plaatje's campaign against the segregationist Natives' Land Act of 1913, a stance...
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    1983), entrepreneur Sol Pais, American student and FBI manhunt subject Sol Plaatje (1876–1932), South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician...
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  • Group Areas Act, making Kimberley's Malay Camp clearance unique. Solomon T. Plaatje, noted author, journalist and first General Secretary of the African...
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  • are: The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology: Named after South African writer Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, the Sol Plaatje European Union...
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  • Mabuza (2017–2022) Paul Mashatile (2022–present) Secretary-General Sol Plaatje (1912–1915) Selope Thema (1915–1917) Saul Msane (1917–1919) Horatio L....
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    Jacana Media. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-77009-641-7. Retrieved 21 March 2013. Plaatje, Solomon T. (September 1976). "Reminiscences of Sebele, the Paramount Bechuana"...
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  • line between Osplaas and Matroosberg, is completed. 9 October – Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator, and...
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    Photograph of Sol Plaatje from his 1915 book Native Life in South Africa...
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    known novels written by a black author in an African language was Solomon Thekiso Plaatje's Mhudi, written in 1930. During the 1950s, Drum magazine became...
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    renamed the African National Congress in 1923. Pixley ka Isaka Seme, Sol Plaatje, John Dube, and Walter Rubusana founded the organisation, who, like much...
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     Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI)  Steve Spence (USA) 1993 Stuttgart details  Mark Plaatjes (USA)  Luketz Swartbooi (NAM)  Bert van Vlaanderen (NED) 1995 Gothenburg...
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    The 1914 South African Native National Congress delegation to Britain (L-R: Walter Rubusana, Thomas Mapikela, Saul Msane, John Dube, and Sol Plaatje)....
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    became known for his defence of the Cape Colony's black population. Sol Plaatje, a founder of the African National Congress, wrote that Burton was "a negrophilist...
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    Private Vaal Reefs 9 NW/FS 3.46 Private Bethlehem hydro Sol Plaatje plant GP 3 Private Sol Plaatje Power Station FS 28°12′58.78″S 28°21′49.00″E / 28.2163278°S...
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  • House and The Thirteen Problems. Death of Lytton Strachey, Hart Crane, Sol Plaatje 1933 in literature – André Malraux's La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate);...
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    Thamsanga Mnyele that depicted black South African figures such as Shaka, Sol Plaatje, Moshoeshoe I and Maqoma. Units were not permitted to be named after living...
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