{"id":22354,"date":"2021-10-07T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/heritage-month-public-lecture-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:32:56","slug":"annual-sol-plaatje-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/annual-sol-plaatje-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Sol Plaatje Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"22354\" class=\"elementor elementor-22354\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1e2a484b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1e2a484b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2ee49d13\" data-id=\"2ee49d13\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ee36a8d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ee36a8d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On Friday, 8 October 2021, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/\">University<\/a><\/span><\/span> will host its annual Sol Plaatje Lecture.<\/p><p>Our guest speaker, Professor Sekepe Daniel Matjila, will talk about \u201cPlaatje\u2019s role in constructing a body of knowledge about Batswana culture\u201d as the theme of engagement. Professor Matjila is the Director of the Centre for PAN-African Languages at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unisa.ac.za\/sites\/corporate\/default\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UNISA<\/span><\/a>.<\/p><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/sol-plaatje\/\">Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje<\/a><\/span><\/span>, for whom this university is named, was born on 9 October 1876 in the homestead of Podisetlhogo in the district of Boshof, approximately 50 kilometres outside of Kimberley. He was a South African journalist, linguist, translator, novelist and founding member and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (forerunner of the ANC).<\/p><p>We cordially invite you to join us as we honour and commemorate the life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje.<\/p><p><strong>Date: <\/strong>08 October 2021<\/p><p><strong>Time: <\/strong>16h00 \u2013 17h30<\/p><p><strong>Place: <\/strong>SPU Library and Resource Centre (limited space available)<\/p><p><strong>Stream: <\/strong>MS Teams Live link &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3sDQMfP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3sDQMfP<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><strong>Programme:<\/strong> Click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SPU-Annual-Lecture-Programme-2021.jpg\">here<\/a><\/span> to download the programme.<\/p><p><strong>Guest Speaker:<\/strong> Professor Sekepe Daniel Matjila<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 8 October 2021, the University will host its annual Sol Plaatje Lecture. Our guest speaker, Professor Sekepe Daniel Matjila, will talk about \u201cPlaatje\u2019s role in constructing a body of knowledge about Batswana culture\u201d as the theme of engagement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/annual-sol-plaatje-lecture\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[185],"class_list":["post-22354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22576,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions\/22576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}