Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (9 October 1876 – 19 June 1932) was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. Plaatje was a founding member and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), which became the African National Congress (ANC). The Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, which includes the city of Kimberley, is named after him, as is the Sol Plaatje University in that city, which opened its doors in 2014.[3]
^Address by the President of South Africa during the announcement of new Interim Councils and names of the New Universities, 25 July 2013, retrieved 25 July 2013.
Congress (ANC). The SolPlaatje Local Municipality, which includes the city of Kimberley, is named after him, as is the SolPlaatje University in that...
The SolPlaatje University, which had provisionally been referred to as the University of the Northern Cape, opened in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2014...
SolPlaatje Municipality (Afrikaans: SolPlaatje Munisipaliteit; Tswana: Mmasepala wa SolPlaatje) is a local municipality within the Frances Baard District...
SolPlaatje Dam (formerly the Saulspoort Dam) is an earth-fill type dam located at the confluence of the As and Liebenbergsvlei Rivers near Bethlehem...
The SolPlaatje Museum and Library is in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, in a house where Solomon T. Plaatje lived during his last years at 32...
The SolPlaatje 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...
reducing the demand for traditional fossil-fuel power stations. The SolPlaatje Power Station was the first commercial small hydro power station constructed...
The SolPlaatje Local Municipality council consists of sixty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-three councillors...
African Native Life a Hundred Years Ago is a South African novel by SolPlaatje first published in 1930, and the first novel by a Black African published...
and NAISA etc. The department is headquartered in SolPlaatje House, named after the author SolPlaatje, in Pretoria. This South African ministry has been...
renamed the African National Congress in 1923. Pixley ka Isaka Seme, SolPlaatje, John Dube, and Walter Rubusana founded the organisation, who, like much...
Galeshewe is a township in Kimberley, South Africa. Within the SolPlaatje Local Municipality in the Northern Cape Province, it is named after Kgosi Galeshewe...
in October 2023, winning 1% of the vote in the ward one election in SolPlaatje Local Municipality. "Political Parties Statistics - Electoral Commission...
listed at the end of the article. Two new universities launched in 2013, SolPlaatje University and the University of Mpumalanga. They are tentatively classified...
politician from the Northern Cape who served as the Executive Mayor of the SolPlaatje Local Municipality from 2018 to 2021. A member of the African National...
It is one of two new universities in South Africa, the other being SolPlaatje University (previously provisionally known as the University of the Northern...
Meritorious Service (Gold) was bestowed on Enoch Sontonga posthumously. SolPlaatje Enoch Mankayti Sontonga, SAHistory.org.za, accessed July 2013 Remembering...
Henry Nxumalo, investigative journalist under apartheid (1917–1957) SolPlaatje, journalist and political activist (1877–1932) Percy Qoboza, journalist...
at mission schools. Its founding leaders were John Dube (President), SolPlaatje (Secretary), and Pixley ka Isaka Seme (Treasurer), of whom historian...
Silas Molema, South African doctor, politician, author and activist SolPlaatje, South African ANC activist, writer and author Frances Baard, Organiser...
Becauna was founded by SolPlaatje in 1910 in Kimberly, Northern Cape. It was the second Tswana and English language newspaper SolPlaatje founded and edited...
Library, Free State Cape Peninsula University of Technology Libraries SolPlaatje University Library Nelson Mandela University Library University of the...
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