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- 3 October 1914
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
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Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
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Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Counterfoils of certificates to transport animals.
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Correspondents:
Baden-Powell, Robert.
Bathoen, Chief Leigh.
Bell, Charles C B.
Green, E Graham.
O Moseley.
Subjects:
Includes correspondence, statements, reports, notices and lists. An incomplete typescript letter, probably from Baden-Powell to Bell, commends the Barolong on successfully defending Fort Abrams against the Boer attack, c.1900 February; report of Boer movements in the Polfontein-Lichtenburg areas, as well as a report of the progress of the war and Lord Methuen's relief of Kimberley, and the flying column sent up to relieve Mafeking; complaints against the Black Watch at Mafeking which prevented nativos from bringing cattle looted from the Boers into the Stadt:
correspondence with Chief Bathoen about the complaint of the Mafeking district commissioner re the Bangwaketse in Mafeking -the Barolong do not want to force them to leave as they will be killed by the Boers, and as Bathoen is on good terms with Gen Snyman he should contact him about getting his people out of Mafeking safely; claims for war losses and detailed lists of losses suffered by Silas Molema, Joshua Molema and Molema Mashoela.
list of the occupants of various camps in particular those, of Josiah Motshegare, Tatinyana Motshegare and Joshua Molema; list of those employed as Stadt guard during the siege of Mafeking at Major Godley's camp; list of those accused of High Treason; list of those who supplied grain to the British Government. Some documonts are probably in the hand of Solomon T Plaatje.
Shippard, Sidney, Mafeking. To Chief Montsioa, Mafeking
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Places on record the terms and conditions on which Montsioa and his Headmen agreed to withdraw the petition against the annexation of British Bechuanaland to the Cape Colony. autograph letter signed. 3p.
Shippard, Sidney, British Bechuanaland. To Chief Montsioa, Mafeking
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Informs Chief Montsioa that by the annexation of his territory to the Cape Colony, his successor will receive on his death half the amount of his present pension i.e. 150 per annum for life as long as he holds the office of Chief.
Copy. letter. Signed by George Weavind, Pretoria, 1913 May 17.
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Incomplete. Includes "The Essential Interpreter", and a few leaves written in Tswana.
Plaatje, as an interpreter, dwells on the functions and importance of the interpreter in courts of law, and the miscarriage of justice in British courts of law in Southern Africa, because of unreliable interpreters. A case in point is that of Sekgoma, whose right to the chieftainship is disputed.
Sefetogi Molema's half-year report for Std VIII at Lovedale Missionary Institution
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Principal.
Sainty [St Leger Plaatje] to Mme Vie, [Violet] typed letter signed. 3l
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers