165 pages, frontispiece, 11 full page illustrations, plans as end papers, black clothtitled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket.
The handwritten "Boer War" diary of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932), interpreter, journalist, author and politician, has been scanned into a digital archive at Wits University, after the original 180 page document was restored and rebound last year.
The diary, which was donated to Wits by John Comaroff, who discovered it and used it as the source of his seminal work The Boer War Diary of Sol T Plaatje, was written during the Siege of Mafikeng, and is the only known surviving document written by an African who witnessed the battle.
The diary, contained in a leather scrap book, was given to him by Sol Plaatje’s grandson Barolong Molema, the child of his daughter Violet, whilst doing doctoral research in 1969 in the district of Mafikeng. http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2011/03/29/sol-plaatjes-original-handwritten-boer-war-diary
- Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
- Size: 8vo (220 x 140 mm)
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