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    Dithakong is the name of a place east of Kuruman in the Northern Cape, South Africa, which had been a major destination for several of the earliest nineteenth...
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  • settled in Dithakwaneng, and later, Dithakong, where Nthua died and was buried. Ratlou and the tribe left Dithakong for Mamusa, and later settled in their...
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  • Daniell with missionaries Jan Matthys Kok and William Edwards reaches Dithakong near current day Kuruman 7 September – Sarel Cilliers, a Voortrekker leader...
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  • [citation needed] The Tswana areas are disrupted by Difaqane raids. Battle of Dithakong - MaNthatisi repulsed by Tlhaping with help from Griquas. Approximately...
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    Britannica. Retrieved 2019-10-26. "The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo" (PDF). The Journal of African History, Volume 29, Issue...
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    A Sotho-Tswana settlement called Dithakong...
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  • Zulu in the Attic Julian Cobbing. "The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo". Journal of African History, 29, 1988. Bryant, Alfred T...
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    homes. The three joined forces in 1823 to take the BaThlaping town of Dithakong, whose access to water kept it rich in grain and cattle despite the overall...
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  • territories she had come across. Her victory run would end in the Battle of Dithakong when, on 23 June 1823, she suffered a massive defeat which was recorded...
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    of the province there are sites attributable to the Iron Age such as Dithakong. Environmental factors have meant that the spread of Iron Age farming...
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    of small, spotted cats that he encountered near Litákun (now known as Dithakong), in South Africa. Felis (Microfelis) nigripes thomasi was proposed as...
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    org. Conquest of the Eastern Cape "The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo" (PDF). The Journal of African History, Volume 29, Issue...
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    Henry Colburn. Cobbing, Julian (1988). "The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo". Journal of African History. 29 (3): 487–519. doi:10...
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  • to 1980 and was renowned for his frontrunning tactics. He was born at Dithakong, near Vryburg in the Northern Cape Province, and retired from athletics...
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  • modern world crisis. Julian Cobbing. "The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo". Journal of African History, 29, 1988. Mfecane State Formation...
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  • in alliance with the Koks and Barends dynasties, he won the battle of Dithakong, and thereby diverted the great Mfecane migrations from Griqua territory...
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  • had been living in seclusion for 25 years at his ancestral village of Dithakong, in the North West Province, near Kuruman. Mayer, Richard (2009). Three...
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  • Adam Kok II, Andries Waterboer and Barend Barends won the Battle of Dithakong, as a result of which the Griqua were spared the terror of the Mfecane...
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  • particularly rock art sites in the Karoo, and the stone walled ruins at Dithakong north east of Kuruman. The arrival of the European colonists exacerbated...
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