biography
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Plaatje, Sol(omon Tshekisho)
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pronunciation:
[plahchee, pliykee
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1932)
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| biography:
| Writer and South African political figure, born in Boshof, C South Africa. He was a versatile intellectual and politician, an author, journalist, linguist, and polemicist. Proficient in at least eight languages, he established the first Tswana-language newspaper, published collections of Tswana proverbs, translated four Shakespeare plays into Tswana, and wrote a novel, Mhudi (1930). He is perhaps best remembered for his graphic Native Life in South Africa (1916), a moving appeal against the 1913 Land Act. He was a founder member of the African National Congress, and that body's first secretary-general. |
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