Ganyesa
Place in North West, South Africa
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Ganyesa is a town of about 19,000 people in the North West province of South Africa. It is located 70 kilometres (40 mi) north-west of Vryburg and about 170 kilometres (110 mi) south-west of the provincial capital Mafikeng.
Ganyesa | |
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  Ganyesa  Ganyesa | |
| Coordinates: 26°35′27″S 24°9′34″E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | North West |
| District | Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati |
| Municipality | Kagisano/Molopo |
| Area | |
• Total | 21.46 km2 (8.29 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 19,290 |
| • Density | 898.9/km2 (2,328/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 98.4% |
| • Coloured | 0.7% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.4% |
| • White | 0.1% |
| • Other | 0.5% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Tswana | 92.7% |
| • English | 1.9% |
| • S. Ndebele | 1.3% |
| • Zulu | 1.2% |
| • Other | 3.0% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| PO box | 8613 |
| Area code | 053 |
It is an administrative centre for the far north-western area of the province, hosting the head offices of the Kagisano-Molopo Local Municipality, a magistrate's court and various national and provincial government offices.
The census of 2011 recorded the population of the town as 19,290 people, of whom the vast majority were black (98%) and Tswana-speaking (93%).[1]
History
Ganyesa is the main town of the Barolong boo Mariba, a faction of the Barolong that split from the Kuruman community in about 1765 under Kgosi-Kgolo Mochware and lived as pastoralists and hunters. In the late 19th century, competition with Kora traders for the Kalahari trade led to friction between the communities.[2] After the British established the British Bechuanaland colony in 1886, Ganyesa was designated as a native reserve, with an area that in the late 1950s was estimated as capital homeland of Barolong bo Mariba, under Kgosi Letlhogile. It was later that Kgosi-Kgolo Mochware made the strongest form of Barolong boo Mariba and His descendants were 1.Makgobi(Makgobistad-Phitsane)
2.Gaetsalwe(Ganyesa;Leporung;Lobatse)
3.Pheko(Ghanzi)
4.Selepile(Madiakgame; Austrey)
5.Borupile(Kikahela)
[[KgosiKgolo Mochware reigned for a period of time [1765-1887]and later on his descendants of his other branch took over who is Kgosi Kgotlakoma Mochware and made a significant role in the administration of Barolong boo Mariba Boo "Ganyesa - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganyesa#/editor/1