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Sol Plaatje

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Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (9 October 1876 – 19 June 1932) was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. [1]

52 relations: African National Congress, Alice, Eastern Cape, Arthur Conan Doyle, Boshof, Bracket, Cape Colony, Free State (province), George Lattimore, Grahamstown, Jacob Zuma, Johanna Brandt, Johannesburg, John Comaroff, Julius Caesar (play), Kimberley, Northern Cape, Linguistics, Mahikeng, Marcus Garvey, Mhudi, Multilingualism, National English Literary Museum, Natives Land Act, 1913, North-West University, Northern Cape, Orange Free State, Pathé, Philharmonic Hall, London, Pneumonia, Pniel, Western Cape, Rhodes University, Rolfes Robert Reginald Dhlomo, Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Second Boer War, Siege of Mafeking, Sol Plaatje Dam, Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, Sol Plaatje Museum, Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation, Sol Plaatje University, South African Literary Awards (SALA), South African rand, Soweto, Stephen Gray (writer), The Comedy of Errors, The Star (South Africa), Tim Couzens, Tswana language, Tswana people, Union of South Africa, W. E. B. Du Bois, ..., William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill. Expand index (2 more) »

African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party.

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Alice, Eastern Cape

Alice is a town in South Africa that is named after The Princess Alice, daughter of the British Queen Victoria.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Boshof

Boshof is a farming town in the west of the Free State province, South Africa.

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Bracket

A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text.

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Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Free State (province)

The Free State (Vrystaat, Foreistata; before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa.

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George Lattimore

George William Lattimore (born 1887 – after 1931) was an American lawyer, sports manager, manager of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra, and a theatrical and cinema impresario.

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Grahamstown

Grahamstown, never known as Makhanda (Grahamstad, iRhini) is a town of about 70,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Jacob Zuma

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth President of South Africa from the 2009 general election until his resignation on 14 February 2018.

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Johanna Brandt

Johanna Brandt (18 November 1876 in Heidelberg, South African Republic – 13 January 1964 in Newlands, Cape Town) was a South African propagandist of Afrikaner nationalism, spy during the Boer War, prophet and writer on controversial health subjects.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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John Comaroff

John L. Comaroff (born 1 January 1945) is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University.

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Julius Caesar (play)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599.

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Kimberley, Northern Cape

Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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Mahikeng

Mahikeng, formerly and still commonly known as Mafikeng and historically Mafeking in English, is the capital city of the North-West Province of South Africa.

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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a proponent of Black nationalism in the United States and most importantly Jamaica.

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Mhudi

Mhudi is a South African novel by Sol Plaatje first published in 1930, and one of the first published African novels and the first novel by a black African to be published in English.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers.

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National English Literary Museum

The National English Literary Museum (NELM) houses extensive archival material relating to Southern African English Literature.

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Natives Land Act, 1913

The Natives Land Act, 1913 (subsequently renamed Bantu Land Act, 1913 and Black Land Act, 1913; Act No. 27 of 1913) was an Act of the Parliament of South Africa that was aimed at regulating the acquisition of land.

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North-West University

The North-West University is a South African university with three campuses at Potchefstroom, Mahikeng and Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.

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Northern Cape

The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.

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Orange Free State

The Orange Free State (Oranje-Vrijstaat, Oranje-Vrystaat, abbreviated as OVS) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which later became a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.

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Pathé

Pathé or Pathé Frères (styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896.

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Philharmonic Hall, London

The Philharmonic Hall, 97 Great Portland Street, London, originally the St James's Hall, was built in 1907–08 to replace the St James's Hall that once stood in Regent Street.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Pniel, Western Cape

Pniel is a settlement in Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Rhodes University

Rhodes University is a public research university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Rolfes Robert Reginald Dhlomo

Rolfes Robert Reginald Dhlomo (1906–1971) was a South African novelist.

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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi

Samuel Edward Krune Loliwe Ngxekengxeke Mqhayi (S. E. K. L. N Mqhayi, 1 December 1875–29 July 1945) was a Xhosa dramatist, essayist, critic,novelist, historian, biographer, translator and poet whose works are regarded as instrumental in standardising the grammar of isiXhosa and preserving the language in the 20 century.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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Siege of Mafeking

The Siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900.

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Sol Plaatje Dam

Sol Plaatje Dam (or Saulspoort Dam) is an earth-fill type dam located at the confluence of the As and Liebenbergsvlei Rivers near Bethlehem, Free State, South Africa.

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Sol Plaatje Local Municipality

The Sol Plaatje Local Municipality is a local municipality in the Frances Baard District Municipality district of the Northern Cape province, South Africa, named after Sol T. Plaatje.

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Sol Plaatje Museum

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 Angel Street, Malay Camp.

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Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation

The Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation is a bi-annual prize, first awarded in 2007, for translation of prose or poetry into English from any of the other South African official languages.

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Sol Plaatje University

The Sol Plaatje University, which had provisionally been referred to as the University of the Northern Cape, opened in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2014, accommodating a modest initial intake of 135 students.

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South African Literary Awards (SALA)

The South African Literary Awards (SALA) are administered by the wRite associates (R/A Lit Consultants: an events and project management company specialising in the arts, culture and heritage realm, with particular focus on the literary arts), in partnership with the South African Department of Arts and Culture (DAC).

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South African rand

The South African Rand (sign: R; code: ZAR) is the currency of South Africa.

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Soweto

Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south.

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Stephen Gray (writer)

Stephen Gray is a South African writer and critic who was born in Cape Town in 1941.

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The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays.

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The Star (South Africa)

The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa.

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Tim Couzens

Tim Couzens (1944–2016) was a South African literary and social historian, and travel writer.

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Tswana language

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Tswana people

The Tswana (Batswana, singular Motswana) are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group who are native to Southern Africa.

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Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika, Unie van Suid-Afrika) is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt "W.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Plaatje

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