Identity area
Reference code
ZA HPRA A979-D-Db-Db2
Title
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
Date(s)
- undated (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
manuscriptExtent53 leaflets
Context area
Name of creator
(19th - 20th century)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.