Setlagole
Se tla a gola | |
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  Setlagole  Setlagole | |
| Coordinates: 26°17′13″S 25°07′01″E / 26.287°S 25.117°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | North West |
| Municipality | Ratlou |
| Area | |
| • Total | 30.78 km2 (11.88 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 19,452 |
| • Density | 630/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 98.4% |
| • Coloured | 1.2% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
| • White | 0.1% |
| • Other | 0.1% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Tswana | 91.7% |
| • Sotho | 1.9% |
| • English | 1.7% |
| • S. Ndebele | 1.2% |
| • Other | 3.5% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| PO box | 2773 |
| Area code | 018 |
Setlagole (Se tla a gola) is a historical Setswana village next to the N18 in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa.
The inhabitants are Batswana nation members who adopted Tholo (khudu) as their totem during King Tau's reign.
Barolong were well-known throughout Southern Africa for their iron-smelting abilities.
The Letsapa dynasty is the sole royal Barolong family descended from Barolong King Moshoeu that possesses both active and inactive royal houses in Setlagole.
During King Tau's reign, the succession system was governed by some type of primogeniture that favoured royal male heirs, the same system that established the young prince Ratlou's royal seniority status among his older siblings.
The Letsapa family is the only surviving royal Barolong dynasty with a legitimate claim to the Barolong throne because they are descended from King Moshoeu's first house with his principal wife.
Following King Ratlou's death, there was a schism between the heir apparent prince Seitshiro(i) and prince Moriba.
Prince Moriba's eligibility in the line of succession was displaced because he was regarded as King Tau's youngest son and Ratlou's younger brother by the strict application of traditional succession law due to his mother's marriage to King Tau shortly before king Tau's death.
When king Ratlou died and was laid to rest in Mosita. Prince Modirwagale was appointed as prince Seitshiro’s regent while prince Moriba and Mokalaka broke away from the majority.
King Seitshiro(i) had a son named prince Kgosithebe (i) who died without an issue leaving prince Moshoeu as the next apparent heir in line to the throne reigning in his own right, prince Mokoto was king Seitshiro(i)'s third son.
The eligibility of King Moshoeu's child named Segoro in the line of succession was displaced because Segoro's mother had already been betrothed and even had a Letlaleanya.
Following the death of crown prince Kgosithebe I who died without issue, prince Moshoeu assumed the throne in his own right as the next in line to the throne.
Rivalry arose among king Moshoeu's children after his death. Seitshiro (ii), the heir apparent born by the princess wife of King Moshoeu and the other children led by King Moshoeu's step son Matlhaku.
Seitshiro(ii) relocated to Dithakong to avoid conflict then Matlhaku was appointed regent.
Matlhaku was appointed regent once more for Segoro's son Kgosi (ii).
The Barolong's regency era began as a result of the inability of Segoro to ascend to the throne because the throne was occupied through the primogeniture system.
Matlhaku was murdered along with his brother Nketsang and cousin Motlhabane, leaving Mongale as regent, who was later murdered in Thaba Nchu.
Prince Mokoto,the grand uncle of kgosi, became a regent and appointed himself as Prime Minister.
Prince Gontse (Mokoto's son) was appointed regent for the pretender ship following the death of Kgosi after an attack by the Batlokwa of Manthatisi in Khunwana.
Crown prince Letsapa succeeded his exiled father Seitshiro(ii) as the legitimate heir to the Barolong throne in Dithakong before moving to Shudintlhe and eventually returning to Taung to settle for some time near Modimong.
Following an attack by Paul Kruger and Andried Pretorius, the Letsapa relocated to the south of the area now known as Vryburg before returning to Shudintlhe, where they were joined by Gontse.
Masisi (son of Matlhaku) inherited the regency pretendership at Mocwi oa Petlwana at this point.
Masisi died in Modimong shortly after sending Gontse's son (Phoi) to a conference in Buurmansdrift between the Batswana chiefs and a commission of the Transvaal Republic to reach an agreement on the issue of land boundaries.
Moffat(Moshoette) served in a farm under some European family in the Potchefstroom area, which is now known as Potchefstroom.
Even when there was a historical succession dispute between the Seitshiro(ii) and the Segoro descendants, Moshoette was installed as the Barolong king by the colonial powers, and through this installation and colonial recognition, the colonial powers were able to legitimize Batswana tribal lands annexation.
Today the Barolong have inherited numerous traditional leadership appointed by colonial and apartheid regimes, All Barolong royals who can not trace their lineage to King Moshoeu are by strict usage of Barolong traditional laws not heirs to the throne of the Barolong Kingdom.
Today the original Barolong territories cover significant parts of Southern Africa.
History
Battle of Mosita
From Setlagole the Barolong and Bahurutshe launched their own hit-and-run attacks into the Rustenburg and Schoonspruit as well as southern Marico districts.
Thereafter, Setlagole became a staging post for raids on Boer farms in the western Tranvaal. A surviving Boer document records the loss of 287 cattle from eight Schoonspruit farms during one such foray."[2][3]
Megabreccia outcrops
"A 25 to 30 km wide magnetic anomaly within the >2.79 Ga granite-greenstone rocks of the northwestern Kaapvaal Craton is spatially associated with megabreccia outcrops near the village of Setlagole in the North West Province, South Africa. The breccia comprises angular to rounded ciasts of TTG gneisses, granites and granodiorites, with lesser amounts of amphibolite, calc-silicate rock and banded iron-formation as well as unusual dark grey to black, irregular, centimetre- to decimetre-sized ciasts that show evidence of fluidal behaviour and plastic deformation during incorporation into the breccia."[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Main Place Setlagole". Census 2011.
- ↑ Ramsay, Jeff (14 January 2019). "The Battle Of Mosita (Part 1)". Mmegi Online. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ↑ Ramsay, Jeff (21 January 2019). "Battle Of Mosita (Part 2)". Mmegi Online. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ↑ Anhaeusser, C. R.; Stettler, E.; Gibson, R. L.; Cooper, G. R. J. (1 December 2010). "A POSSIBLE MESOARCHAEAN IMPACT STRUCTURE AT SETLAGOLE, NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA: AEROMAGNETIC AND FIELD EVIDENCE". South African Journal of Geology. 113 (4): 413–436. doi:10.2113/gssajg.113.4.413. hdl:2263/16882. ISSN 1012-0750.
Municipalities and communities of Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West | ||
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District seat: Mahikeng | ||
| Ratlou | .svg.png.webp) Ngaka Modiri Molema District within South Africa | |
| Tswaing | ||
| Mahikeng | ||
| Ditsobotla | ||
| Ramotshere Moiloa | ||