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Young Reporters Network: Tlotlego Maroro from Kuruman, South Africa

21 year-old Tlotlego Maroro is in grade 11 at a high school in Kuruman, Northern Cape, South Africa. He is a young reporter for the Children's Radio Foundation, working with community radio station Kurara FM.
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Kuruman traditional leaders appreciate Section 25 review

Traditional leaders in Kuruman, Northern Cape have applauded government for the review of Section 25 of the Constitution which calls for the redistribution of land without compensation. One of the Chiefs representing the Batswana people of Dithakong says the previous process of land redistribution failed Black people and benefited individuals. The overwhelming majority of those making oral representations have called for the redistribution of land without compensation.


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Young Reporters Network: Rebaone Selebalo from Kuruman, South Africa

Rebaone is 16 years old, from Kuruman, Northern Cape, South Africa. She is a young reporter for the Children's Radio Foundation, working with community radio station Kurara FM.
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A partially blind pensioner from Kuruman is unable to access his social grant

A partially blind pensioner from Kampaneng near Kuruman is unable to access his social grant. He lost everything in a fire that gutted his property last month, including his documents. Last week his wife succumbed to breast cancer - and he has no money to bury her. Government's promised help - but says it's still assessing the situation.

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#SADECIDES 2019 | Voting smooth in Magojaneng, Kuruman

We now cross to our reporter Neria Hlakotsa who is in Kuruman in the Northern Cape. She is standing by at one of the voting stations that had the most registrations in Kuruman.

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Western Limb - Phokeng and Nkulumane

Sunday 21 October 2012

Kevin

Arriving in Rustenburg

I arrived at OR Tambo airport from London on Sunday 21 October 2012. My folks collected me from the airport. They were on their way back from a road trip to the Eastern Cape.

I was full of questions on the drive home about stuff related to the Western Limb. I asked about about maps, about local arts, about entertainment venues, about film and video in the area. Having been closely involved in the area as the General Manager of several platinum mines in the area, he knows the area extremely well.

Angelina and the Moffat Mission Station

We arrived at my parent's home. In a promising omen for the music recording side of Western Limb, Angelina, who is a cleaner for my parents, had on a programme of great gospel music on Soweto TV to soundtrack her work. We had a sandwich and then took Angelina, my folks' cleaner, back to her house in Phokeng.

On the 20km drive from Cashan, where my parents live, to Phokeng, I asked Angelina about gospel and choral music and her involvement and the church. Angelina loves signing and sings in several church choirs. She grew up in Kuruman. Kuruman is the site of a historical mission station established in 1816 by Robert and Mary Moffat of the London Missionary Society. Robert Moffat and a team of Tswana translators translated the bible and Tswana and printed it in the Mission's printing machinery. It was the first entire bible printed in Africa. The printing machines are still used today. Angelina's grandmother worked at the mission station. Angelina now lives in Rustenburg and is part of the Rustenburg chapter of the mission church, and returns regularly to Kuruman. In a few weeks, she is sitting a bible studies exam.

Before returning home, we stopped in at Nkulamane's grave, son of the great chief Mzilikazi (translation: The Great Road). Mziikazi was a Zulu chief who split away from King Shaka with hos followers and went inland. I had always associated Mzilikazi with the Matabele people based around Bulawayo and the Matopo Hills where Cecil John Rhodes is buried, as this is where he and his followers eventually settled. I did not realise that Mzilikazi and his followers were so active in the Rustenburg area as well.

In fact, Mzilikazi spent several years in the area around Rustenburg, where he established three military strongholds. One on the Apies River north of Pretoria, one north of the present day Hartebeespoort Dam, and one in Phokeng itself.

Mzilikazi only moved north of the Limpopo River into present day Zimbabwe after several battles with the Voortrekker families who were moving into their area with their trains of oxwagons, rifles and deadly marksmanship. In Zimbabwe, he rejoined a group Matabele from whom his followerd had separated several years earlier. This group had installed Nkulumane as Chief. It seems that Nkulumane came with his followers to the Rustenburg area and found a home among the Bafokeng, as a result of a succession disupute, though different sources give different reasons why he left for the South.

Nkulumane's grave site is in a yard a few blocks away from the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace that hosted several matches in the 2012 FIFA World Cup.

Robert Moffat and Mzilikazi admired one another and were good friends. Moffat visited Mzilikazi's royal complex every few years.

OASIS IN THE DESERT | THE EYE

The Eye of Kuruman is an oasis in the middle of the Kalahari. The Eye is said to be the largest fresh water spring, a bore hole in the southern hemisphere, and is claimed by the locals to have healing properties. For the San Bushman ancient people this must have been a great symbol of abundance finding so much cool, refreshing, clean and revitalizing water in such a dry and hot area. The Eye of Kuruman is a spectacular natural phenomenon that is nestled in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the largest natural fountain in the Southern Hemisphere, delivering an astounding 20 to 30 million litres of fresh water every day. This water is cool and clear, and is essential to the survival of the plants, animals and people in the area as it is the main source of potable water for these ones. It feed the Kuruman River and flows into two long irrigation canals.
The Eye was discovered in 1801, when an expedition called Truter Somerville was being conducted. It was only a little while later that a mission station was established here with the purpose of educating the locals and converting them to Christianity. For this reason, the Eye was known as the Fountain of Christianity for some time, while the local Tswana people dubbed it Gasegonyane (which translates to ‘small calabash with bubbling water’). The Eye was declared a National Monument in 1992 and continues to be historically and naturally relevant.
Although fishing is prohibited, there is an abundance of fish species living in these waters. These include carp, goldfish, barb and blue carper. The pseudocrenilabrus philander is also found here, which is significant as this is an endangered species and a real treat to find. Water lilies float on the surface of the exquisite crystal waters to make the scene even lovelier.
The Eye of Kuruman spring culminates in a lake, which can be found in the centre of the little town. This is not only aesthetically beautiful, but also important as a water source for the homes and businesses in the town.

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Horses and Donkeys in Kuruman will remain quarantined

A quarantine of horses and donkeys in the Kuruman and Kathu areas of the Northern Cape will remain effective for the next two months. This according to the Department of Agriculture in the province after two horses positively tested for African Horse Sickness. Two horses have so far died. The animals are now being restricted to movement within a 30km radius. The fatal disease may cause horses to have difficulty breathing and a swelling of the head.

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The Man with Three Wives

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Though Livingstone loved his family, he spent little time with them.
In the 1940s, a British district officer in Tabora, in what is now central Tanzania, found the local people still told stories about Livingstone, who had spent six months there before setting out on his last journey.
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An old man said, My father used to say that Livingstone was like a man that had three wives, and yet none of them were women. One was a river. The river they call the Nile. The second was the struggle against slavery. The third, religion.
By the time Livingstone had reached Tabora, his true wife was long dead. But local tradition recognized, with great insight, the conflict between his passion for exploration and the demands of family life. He was a holy man, the Arab Taboran said. A little mad, but yet a holy man.
Tearing out my bowels


Livingstone's marriage to Mary Moffat in 1845 began as a purely unromantic, utilitarian venture. Livingstone had decided that he needed a wife to help him in his missionary work. Mary, at 23, wanted to have a home of her own and expected to be part of a missionary establishment like that of her parents. At the remote Kuruman mission station, both had a limited choice of marriage partners.
Livingstone was hardly ecstatic about his new bride, describing her as a plain, common-sense woman, not a romantic. Mine is a matter-of-fact lady, a little, thick, black-haired girl, sturdy and all I want.
In time, however, he grew to love her deeply. He was to write her, I never show my feelings, but I can say truly, my dearest, that I loved you when I married you and the longer I lived with you, I loved you the better.
After several false starts at starting mission stations, they settled among the BaKwena and began raising a family. Mary expected to stay in one place, as her parents did ...