Sol Plaatjie 1876 – 1932
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Sol Plaatjie (1876–1932) was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer; founding member and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress; regarded as the first Black South African to write a novel in English. Born October 9, 1876 in Orange Free State. Died January 19, 1932 in Johannesburg of pneumonia.
