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A typewriter from the period 1900 – 1930, similar to the one that Solomon (Sol) Plaatje used


Some excerpts by Sol Plaatje: “To give a short account of what I found war to be, I can say: no music is as thrilling and as immensely captivating as to listen to the firing of the guns… no words can suitably depict the fascination of the music produced by the action of Maxim gun…”
From: Diary of Solomon Plaatje, p.1.
“The imperial Government may be as good as we are told it is, but one thing is certain that (it) does not care a hang over the lives of its distant subjects.”
From: Diary of Solomon Plaatje, p.33.
“Awakening on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth.”
From: Native Life in South Africa by Solomon T Plaatje, p.86.