Saturday, September 27, 2008

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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"King John McShisby" may be a derogatory 
term intended to belittle the water hole's
resident African herders, or a dog.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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Two notes: Sluit = South African English for
gully or rift in the ground caused by erosion
Monkoran is Mankurwane, Ba-Tlhaping chief
lived ca. 1825–ca. 1895 (must check)

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

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Notes:

Monkoran = Mankurwane (c. 1825-91), a Ba-Tlhaping (people-of-the-place-of-fish) chief

Mapungubwe:

http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/Landau/mapungubwepics/mapungubwepics.html

Clustered around the Limpopo River border with eastern Botswana, N. South Africa, and S. Zimbabwe, and a bit of Mozambique, where this caravan is going:

Bosutswe (500 ad on)
Phalaborwa (1000 ad on)
Toutswemogala (or Toutswe complex) (800 ad on, thru 1200)
Mapungubwe (950 ad → abandoned by 1200)
Great Zimbabwe (1200 – 1500) thereabouts
other Zimbabwe plan sites:
Khami
Manyikweni
Shoshong complex
Rozvi complex (1600s – 1800s)
Munhumutapa state ( →1600s)
Thulamela is on this site: ca. 1500 → ?

Stone sites across S. Africa, Schroda, Igombe Ilede, n. of Okavango, Angola, elsewhere.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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The end figure is Cecil John Rhodes, whose first
constituency as a Cape Colony (European 
voters only) politician was Barkley (today, 
Barkly West), a Boer area, a diamond area

Sunday, September 7, 2008