Sol Plaatje

Sol Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 near Boshof, in the Orange Free State, into a Christian Barolong family, and received only a few years of schooling at the Pniel mission. He learned at least eight languages, became a postman in Kimberley, then a court interpreter during the siege of Mafeking, of which he kept a diary. He founded newspapers in Setswana and English, was in 1912 the first secretary general of the congress that became the ANC, left in 1914 for London to fight the Land Act of 1913, and translated Shakespeare into Setswana. He died in Johannesburg on 19 June 1932.

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