Some obvious errors have been corrected (see Notes).] 

Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since
the European War and the Boer Rebellion 

By Sol.  T.  Plaatje
Editor of `Tsala ea Batho', Kimberley, S.A.
Author of `Sechuana Proverbs and their European Equivalents' 

Fourth Edition 

Foreword (Native Life in South Africa electronic text): 

Sol Plaatje began work on `Native Life in South Africa' in 1914,
while on his way to Britain to plead with the Imperial Government
against the Natives' Land Act of 1913, as part of a deputation
of the South African Native National Congress.  The book was intended
as a means of reaching the British public with the deputation's message. 

The method seemed sound enough -- it was quite similar in form