A community's struggle to recapture sacred tradition and reoccupy ancestral land : the case of the Barokologadi
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Authors
Molobi, Masilo Sonnyboy
Issue Date
2014-05
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Article
Language
en
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Barokologadi tribe , Bapedi community , Bakgatla ba kgafela , Legwana (Ramatlabana) village , Mankgopi , Ramotswa , Madikwe game reserve , Melorane , Homelands , Bophuthatswana government , Customary law , Tribes of Rustenburg districts , Tribes of Pilansburg districts
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This article discusses the Barokologadi tribe in the Northwest Bushveld who split from the Bapedi Community and sought refuge among Bakgatla Ba Kgafela in 1700. They lived in the Lengwana (Ramatlabama) Village until 1870 when they settled at Mankgopi near Ramotswa in Botswana. On their departure from Mankgopi they settled at Melorane which is now the Madikwe Game Reserve. The Barokologadi tribe, who owned this land, was forcefully removed in 1950. Since they were living outside their historical space, they felt the disjuncture and the lack of space, time and linkage to their ancestral land. After the 1994 democratic election in South Africa they applied for land restitution which was granted to them. They have since started an annual pilgrimage to pacify their ances¬tors in Melorane. The article has drawn information from oral sources including interviews; literature and the use of own observation on the actual sites and experiences from the people who lived there.
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Molobi, Masilo Sonnyboy 2014,"A community's struggle to recapture sacred tradition and reoccupy ancestral land: the case of the Barokologadi", Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 117-135.
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Church History Society of Southern Africa
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1017-0499