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People Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
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Plaatje
and the NANC
Were the Surname Plaatje Came from. Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje were born in 1875 near Boshof. He went to school in Pniel near the Vaal River. While he were a postman in Kimberly he wrote and passed the Cape Civil Service Certificate and moved to Mafikeng as court interpreter. He kept a diary during the Mafikeng siege that were later published as The Siege of Mafeking (1984). Between the years 1904 to 1917 Plaatje
edited the Koranta ea Bechuana a Tswana-English weekly. He moved back to Kimberley were he
establisged the Tsala ea Batho newspaper. Solomon were a writer in format he wrote numerous articles for newspapers, wrote two works in Tswana and work fir the African National Congress (ANC) as genral correspondence secretary. He also translated A comedy of errors and Julius Ceasar into Twana. A house was presented to him in Kimberley by the community he served. He died in 1932. |
