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Lesley Mofokeng
Dr Lesley Mofokeng is a lecturer at the Wits Centre for Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand, and the author of The Man Who Shook Mountains (Jonathan Ball, 2023). His doctoral thesis examines the contribution of Sol T. Plaatje to the history of journalism in South Africa.
10 moments Plaatje changed SA forever
On his 150th birthday, a reappraisal of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje highlights 10 pivotal moments where his pioneering journalism, activism, and intellectual work transformed South…
Before 1956, there was 1913: The forgotten women of the first pass war
While South Africa celebrates the women of 1956, this article sheds light on the largely forgotten women of 1913. Exactly 43 years earlier, thousands of black women in the Orange…
What Sol Plaatje knew about freedom that we are still learning
On Freedom Day, South Africa should reckon with the man who documented what unfreedom looked like — and what it cost