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Recall unheard voices in South Africa’s history

Analysis Athambile Masola - 14 Feb 2020

Adelaide Tantsi Dube’s poem was published in 1913, the year Africans were stripped of their land

A new biography gives the real Sol Plaatje

Article Matthew Blackman - 28 Sep 2018

The Sol Plaatje biography is a triumph of research to which its length gives testimony.

Sol Plaatje Mayor steps down following reinstatement by the court

Article Gemma Ritchie - 4 Sep 2018

The ANC regional executive committee will now provide the provincial executive committee with three potential candidates to become the new mayor

DA applies for interdict demanding mayor’s removal

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Jul 2018

The Northern Cape High Court will hear an urgent application on Tuesday calling for mayor Mangaliso Matika’s removal.

75 schools closed in Kimberley as violent protests pick up

Article Gemma Ritchie - 30 Jul 2018

Sol Plaatje municipality may be facing another shutdown after schools were closed and businesses disrupted on Monday

Kimberley’s Sol Plaatje statue at the heart of new wrangle

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Oct 2017

A life-sized statue of Solomon Plaatje has been languishing in storage for nine years after objections from his family over the way he was depicted

‘Native life’ 100 after Sol Plaatje published it

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Sep 2016

Edited extract of the editors’ introduction in ‘Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present’ (Wits University Press).

It’s lit at the M&G’s book fest

Article Darryl Accone - 30 Sep 2016

Topics include writing since Sol Plaatje to reporting on Marikana – and will continue at the afterparty

‘Healing’ poets up for Sol Plaatje Poetry Award

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Sep 2016

Three poems have been shortlisted for the 2016 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award.

M&G’s Litfest takes flight, honouring Sol Plaatje on his 140th anniversary

Article Darryl Accone - 9 Sep 2016

Alongside panels discussing hot topics, shortlisted poets from the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology will receive their awards.

A novel look at diaspora and identity

Article Jane Rosenthal - 4 May 2016

Academic JU Jacobs explores South African stories that reveal who we are and our journeys here and elsewhere, both physically and psychologically.

The human face of colonialism

Article Robyn Sassen - 16 Apr 2015

The imagining of a friendship between Sol Plaatje and Cecil Rhodes feels particularly relevant right now.

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