Certificate of Merit (Violet Plaatje)
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Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Certificate of Merit (Violet Plaatje)
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Chief Montsioa, Mafeking. To Chief Moshette, (Kunwanu)
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Be has written to the freebooters and encloses a copy of the letter so that Moshette will know the true contents of his letter.
Copy. Enclosed in 8. letter. 1p.
Chief Montsioa, [Mafeking]. To George J Boyes, [Mafeking]
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
He cannot allow the Boers to camp on his land as there is not enough grazing land for his own people and cattle; had it been summer he could have helped.
Enclosed in 12. letter draft 1p.
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Reminds Gey van Pittius that they have encroached upon the territory of the Barolong as determined by the Pretoria' Conventien and therefore must remove themselves; anyone buying farms in his territory will lose their money.
Copy. Enclosed in 8. letter. 1p.
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Reminds him that they are on territory belonging to the Barolong and that they are forbidden to plough the land at Rooi Grond, the Molopo River or anywhere on the Barolong's side of the convention line.
Copy. Enclosed in 8. letter. 1p.
[Chief Montsioa, Mafeking]. To the Administrator of Britiuh Bechuanaland, [Sidney Shippard], Vryburg
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Has received complaints from his people that the Dutch farmers in the district are having a petition signed, asking the High Commissioner to annex British Bechuanaland to the Cape Colony; was assured in 1884 and Subsequently that his country would always be under Imperial rule; encloses a petition signed by the principal chiefs and headmen of the Barolong against annexation; denies reports that the majority of the people are in favour of annexation.
Undated. letter draft ?p.
Chief Montsioa, [Mafeking]. To the Queen... [1895?] and her ministers, [London]
Part of Silas Thelensho Molema and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Papers
Protests against annexation to the Cape and expresses fear of losing the land; requests that the sale of brandy be forbidden for fear that it will cause fighting; also fears that their land will be given to the British South Africa Company; as the Barolong are a loyal, industrious nation, why does the British Government want to get rid of them?; refers to his division of the land among individual members of the tribe; the petition is being carried by his son Wessels and Stephen Lefeynya to the Queen.
Undated. letter draft 2p.