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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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    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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    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 University, which had provisionally been referred to as the University of the Northern Cape, opened in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2014...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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