Saturday, September 27, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
LBNLGMC-23
"King John McShisby" may be a derogatory
term intended to belittle the water hole's
resident African herders, or a dog.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
LBNLGMC-16
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)
Sunday, September 14, 2008
LBNLGMC-12
Monkoran = Mankurwane (c. 1825-91), a Ba-Tlhaping (people-of-the-place-of-fish) chief
Mapungubwe:
Mapungubwe:
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.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
LBNLGMC-5
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
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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