SOL PLAATJE

Sol Plaatje has been hailed as South Africa’s first black novelist, but he was much more than this. He was also a diarist, politician, translator, musician of sorts, pamphleteer, among other things. Despite daunting odds he went on to write many books, many of which were published in his lifetime.

Best known for his work of fiction, Mhudi, Plaatje’s other works include Native life in South Africa,  Diphosho-phosho (translation of Shakespeare’s Comedy Of Errors), Boer War Diary, The Essential Interpreter, Sechuana Proverbs with Literal Translations and their European Equivalents (1916), A Sechuana Reader in International Phonetic Orthography (1916), and Bantu Folk-Tales and Poems

Studies:

Sol Plaatje, South African nationalist, 1876-1932 by Brian Willan 

Sol Plaatje : a biography by Brian Willan

Sol Plaatje by John Pampallis

Peaceable warrior : the life and times of Sol T. Plaatje by Maureen Rall 

Sol Plaatje : an introduction by Peter Midgley 

Sol T. Plaatje and native life in South Africa by Richard Rive

Solomon Plaatje's vision of a just South Africa by Tim Couzens

The story of Sol T. Plaatje by Sabata-mpho Mokae 

Sol Plaatje by Chris Van Wyk