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Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers Text
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Sekgoma: The Black Dreyfus; detained for three years at Gaberones Prison without trial, by orders...

Sekgoma: The Black Dreyfus; detained for three years at Gaberones Prison without trial, by orders of the Earl of Selborne, His Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa

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.

Representation to the Protectorate Government to improve their economic conditions by providing a...

Representation to the Protectorate Government to improve their economic conditions by providing a market for their cattle; to employ an engineer to undertake boring for water; the question of shop licences; restrictions on permits to purchase ammunition; refusal of travelling passies to the Bakwena; to stop minors (boys) and unmarried girls from going to the industrial centres without the knowledge of the chiefs; Bangwaketse complaint of mismanagement by school committee in the payment of teachers; locust officers becoming prospectors for gold and diamonds in the Bangwaketse Reserve

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