“乡土生活在南非”是一个最显着的书籍，由非洲大陆最杰出的作家之一。这是作为一个慷慨激昂的书面政治宣传工作，揭露新的统一下，南非白人，只有政府对南非黑人的困境。它的重点是1913年同乡'土地法的出台了土地之间的种族分离统一制度的影响。其结果，作为普拉杰表明，在黑人立即驱逐，为“居民”从奥兰治自由邦在他们祖先的土地，现在宣布“白”。但是，在被本土生活成功不仅仅是一个宣传的工作。这是一个重要的社会文件，它抓住了时代精神，显示了对人民日常生活中的农村隔离效果。
    所罗门Tshekeisho普拉杰出生于1878年在茨瓦纳语为母语的人的土地，南部马非京。他的起源是普通不够。是什么了不起的是他的才能显示，教育和之后几年的学费根据学校学习一个了不起的自由主义德国路德会传教士，牧师吕多夫。在16普拉杰（年龄利用他作为一个姓祖父荷兰昵称）加入一个邮件运营商在金伯利邮政署，在北开普殖民地的钻石的城市。他随后通过了在殖民地最高文职考试，每个都击败荷兰和打字白色的候选人。
    从金伯利青年普拉杰接着马弗京，他是在1899一1900年大包围的关键球员之一。由于裁判的解释，他是英国之间的民事当局和非洲的大多数城市内的军事周边围困重要一环。普拉杰的日记从这一时期，他去世后不久发表的，是双方的包围和他早期的散文实验骄人的纪录 - 混合语言，成语，和亮丽的幽默。
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    "Native Life in South Africa" is one of the most remarkable books on Africa, by one of the continent's most remarkable writers. It was written as a work of impassioned political propaganda, exposing the plight of black South Africans under the whites-only government of newly unified South Africa. It focuses on the effects of the 1913 Natives' Land Act which introduced a uniform system of land segregation between the races. It resulted, as Plaatje shows, in the immediate expulsion of blacks, as "squatters", from their ancestral lands in the Orange Free State now declared "white". But Native Life succeeds in being much more than a work of propaganda. It is a vital social document which captures the spirit of an age and shows the effects of rural segregation on the everyday life of people.
    Solomon Tshekeisho Plaatje was born in 1878 in the lands of the Tswana-speaking people, south of Mafeking. His origins were ordinary enough. What was remarkable was the aptitude he showed for education and learning after a few years schooling under the tuition of a remarkable liberal German Lutheran missionary, the Rev. Ludorf. At the age of sixteen Plaatje (using the Dutch nickname of his grandfather as a surname) joined the Post Office as a mail-carrier in Kimberley, the diamond city in the north of Cape Colony. He subsequently passed the highest clerical examination in the colony, beating every white candidate in both Dutch and typing.
    From Kimberley the young Plaatje went on to Mafeking, where he was one of the key players in the great siege of 1899-1900. As magistrate's interpreter he was the vital link between the British civil authorities and the African majority beleaguered inside the town's military perimeter. Plaatje's diaries from this period, published long after his death, are a remarkable record both of the siege and of his early prose experimentation -- mixing languages and idioms, and full of bright humour.