Barolong

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The Barolong are an ethnic group in South Africa and Botswana . Her totem is ho rola (German "forge"). They are related to the Bataung , belong to the Batswana and speak Setswana .

history

The founder of the Barolong was Morolong, who is said to have lived around 1270. In the early 19th century they lived north of the river Vaal , approximately around the present mahikeng in the province of North West , and neighboring Bechuanaland , since 1966 Botswana . The group Barolong boo Ratshidi still lives there today .

In the course of the Mfecane , the group Barolong boo Seleka fled under their head Moroka II. (1795-1880) to the Basotho under Moshoeshoe I , who let them settle in the west of his sphere of influence. The Barolong were accompanied by Wesleyan missionaries and founded Thaba Nchu . Conflicts soon arose between Barolong and Basotho, as Moroka did not want to submit to Moshoeshoe and instead made a pact with the leadership of Orange River Sovereignty and subsequently the Orange Free State . After the British resident of the Orange River Sovereignty, Henry Douglas Warden, had recognized the Barolong, there were repeated battles between Barolong and Basotho. After the Seqiti War , Thaba Nchu became an island in the Orange Free State in 1868. In 1886 he annexed the area, and thousands of Barolong fled east to Basutoland , where they were absorbed by the Basotho people. In 1913, numerous Batswana from the area were forcibly assigned to the Thaba Nchu area under the Natives Land Act . The area was part of the Bophuthatswana homeland from 1977 to 1994 , which also included other South African settlement areas of the Barolong. The traditional head in Thaba Nchu has been Albert Moroka since 1997, who also serves as the judge of a traditional court for minor cases.

Known Barolong

Sol Plaatje , born in Boshof near Thaba Nchu, was co-founder and first secretary of the South African Native National Congress , the forerunner of the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC President from 1949 to 1952, James Sebe Moroka , a descendant of Moroka II, came from a village near Thaba Nchu.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , p. 40.
  2. ^ History of the Batswana , accessed January 14, 2014