Sol Plaatje, a man of his words — and they are legion
As centenaries come and go, the works of Sol Plaatje live on, and through them, this pioneering polymath is writ large
22 February 2020 - 06:46
Over the past decade, inquiry into the life and work of SA writer, intellectual and politician Solomon T Plaatje has been spurred by a series of 100-year anniversaries.
In 2010 it was the centenary of the formation of that dubious political and geographical structure, the Union of SA, which would shape the focus of Plaatje’s many projects until his death in 1932. It was also in 1910 that he founded his second Setswana-language newspaper, Tsala ea Becoana...
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