MAFIKENG MUSEUM

The curator has made this museum one of the very first in the country. A black journalist from the rolong tribe, Plaatje lived in Mafikeng from 1898 to 1909 and wrote a "diary" of the headquarters. In 1913 he was sent to Britain by the South African Native National Congress to protest the Natives Land Act. As a translator of Shakespeare in the Tswana language, he left a novel, Mhudi, the first novel written in English by a black South African. His story Native Life in South Africa is considered the first account of the daily life of black South Africans.