2 Minutes of Silence

Jan Christian Smuts

Topics:

• Boer War General
• South African Statesman
• British General WW1
• British General WW2
• League of Nations
• United Nations
• Philosophy of Holism
• Ouma Smuts
• Commonwealth
• Royal Air Force

Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

Gandhi

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

20th Century Statesman imprisoned in South Africa

• Winston Churchill
• Gandhi
• Nelson Mandela

Uitlanders

Bywoners

Binnelanders

African National Congress

Wikipedia references

Topis:

• John Langalibalele Dube` [Do-bay] (1871 - 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress which became the African National Congress[1] in 1923. Dube served as SANNC president between 1912 and 1917.Dube was also an educator, a speaker of note on the circuit engaging whites in lectures around the country. As an educator he founded the school for girls (see below). He gave many lecturers on invitation and was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy as a result.
  
  He was among the pioneering men of letters who helped to establish Zulu literature. He was the first published Zulu writer, though later it would transpire that the first written work belonged to a barely literate man named Fuze Mangena who wrote a book on the history of the Zulus, Abantu abamnyama lapo bavela ngakona, published in 1922 but having been written in the 1880's and early 1890's. Dube's first published work was an essay in English on self-improvement and public decency that was published in 1910. The work that was to earn Dube the honorary doctorate of philosophy was the essay Umuntu Isita Sake Uqobo Lwake (A man is his own worst enemy) (1992)(text in pre-1936 Zulu old orthography). He went on to publish a historical novella that has proven to be popular and influential in Zulu canon titled Insila kaShaka (Shaka's Body Servant) (1930). Dube also embarked on writing biographies of the Zulu royal family, especially that of King Dinizulu, making him the first biographer in African literature. There are numerous other works of less significant literary quality such as the essay Ukuziphatha [On Behaviour] (1910). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dube
   
• Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (9 October 1876 – 19 June 1932) was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator, and writer.
  
  As an activist and politician he spent much of his life in the struggle for the enfranchisement and liberation of African people. He was a founder member and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), which would later become the African National Congress (ANC). As a member of an SANNC deputation he would travel to England to protest the 1913 Native Land Act, and later to Canada and the United States where he met Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois.

  While he grew up speaking the Tswana language, Plaatje would become a polyglot. Fluent in at least seven languages, he worked as a court interpreter during the Siege of Mafikeng, and translated works of William Shakespeare into Tswana. His talent for language would lead to a career in journalism and writing. He was editor and part-owner of Koranta ea Becoana (Bechuana Gazette) in Mafikeng, and in Kimberley Tsala ea Becoana (Bechuana Friend) and Tsala ea Batho (The Friend of the People). Plaatje was the first black South African to write a novel in English - Mhudi. Plaatje wrote the novel in 1919, but it was only published in 1930. In 1928 the Zulu writer R.R.R. Dhlomo published an English-language novel, entitled 'An African Tragedy', at the missionary Lovedale Press, in Alice. This makes Dhlomo's novel the first published black South African novel in English, even though Plaatje's 'Mhudi' had been written first. He also wrote^[1] Native Life in South Africa, which Neil Parsons describes as "one of the most remarkable books on Africa by one of the continent's most remarkable writers";^[2] and Boer War Diary that was first published 40 years after his death. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Plaatje