Setlagole

Setlagole (Se tlaa gola) is a historical Tswana village next to the N18 in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa.

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Coordinates: 26.287°S 25.117°E / -26.287; 25.117
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
Municipality	Ratlou
Government
Area [1]
• Total	30.78 km^2 (11.88 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	19,452
• Density	630/km^2 (1,600/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	98.4%
• Coloured	1.2%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	0.1%
• Other	0.1%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Tswana	91.7%
• Sotho	1.9%
• English	1.7%
• S. Ndebele	1.2%
• Other	3.5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	2773
Area code	018

The House of Letsapa of Barolong has an active royal family in Setlagole village.

Kgosi Thomas Tomase Letsapa is the rightful traditional leader in Setlagole while The House of Letsapa also has another branch reigning in the neighbouring village named Kraaipan.

The village is divided in several sections with the oldest section named Lokaleng other sections are Ga-Letsapa which includes Lopapeng and Thoteng, Shaleng, Mokoto, Kotlase and neighbouring farms.

Interesting information about Setlagole:

1) Battle of Mosita

"On hearing of Scholtz’s ill-intentions, Montshiwa decided to remove most of his people from Lotlhakane to Setlagole, some 60 kilometres further west. There, the BooRatshidi joined forces with their relatives the Barolong booRatlou of Kgosi Gontse (who died shortly thereafter and was replaced by his son Letsapa) and Bahurutshe refugees led by a certain Lentswe.

From Setlagole the Barolong and Bahurutshe launched their own hit-and-run attacks into the Rustenburg and Schoonspruit as well as southern Marico districts

Thereafter, Setlagole became a staging post for raids on Boer farms in the western Tranvaal.  A surviving Boer document records the loss of 287 cattle from eight Schoonspruit farms during one such foray"

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2) Megabreccia outcrops

A 25 to 30 km wide magnetic anomaly within the >2.79 Ga granite-greenstone rocks of the northwestern Kaapvaal Craton is spatially associated with megabreccia outcrops near the village of Setlagole in the North West Province, South Africa. The breccia comprises angular to rounded ciasts of TTG gneisses, granites and granodiorites, with lesser amounts of amphibolite, calc-silicate rock and banded iron-formation as well as unusual dark grey to black, irregular, centimetre- to decimetre-sized ciasts that show evidence of fluidal behaviour and plastic deformation during incorporation into the breccia. For more information visit www.researchgate.net

References

1. "Main Place Setlagole". Census 2011.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274325697_A_possible_mesoarchaean_impact_structure_at_Setlagole_North_West_Province_South_Africa_Aeromagnetic_and_field_evidence

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