• THE MAFEKING DIARY OF SOL T. PLAATJE, centenary edition

THE MAFEKING DIARY OF SOL T. PLAATJE, centenary edition

: Plaatje (S.T.)

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206 pp., maps, illus., paperback, New Edition, Cape Town & Oxford, (1973) 1999

 

Edited by John Comaroff and Brian Willan with Solomon Molema and Andrew Reed.

A new edition of Sol Plaatje's diary of the siege of Mafeking (1899-1900) during the Anglo-Boer War. His is the only diary of the war written by a black South African to have survived.

Journalist, interpreter, author and politician Sol Plaatje (1876-1932) is also the author of "Native Life in South Africa" and "Mhudi".