Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… 140 years ago in what is today South Africa’s Free State province. When he was 40 years old, he published Native Life … All Saints mission school described the pupils as being Cape Dutch [that is, “Coloured”], Bechuana, Zulus, Fingoes, … of the few positions available to educated Africans in the Cape Colony, Plaatje learnt the importance of bearing the …