Witsie's Cave (Lekhalong la Witsie), the Glossary
Witsie’s cave (Lehaeng la Wetsi) is a sacred site in the Free State and is named after the grandson of Chief Seeka of Makholokoe.[1]
Table of Contents
18 relations: Bethlehem, South Africa, Boers, Clarens, South Africa, Free State (province), Great Trek, Harrismith, Lesotho, Mfecane, Moshoeshoe I, Mpumalanga, Orange Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, QwaQwa, Sotho people, Standerton, Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, University of the Witwatersrand.
- Caves of South Africa
- Historic sites in South Africa
Bethlehem, South Africa
Bethlehem is a city in the eastern Free State province of South Africa that is situated on the Liebenbergs river (also called Liebenbergs Vlei) along a fertile valley just north of the Rooiberg Mountains on the N5 road.
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Boers
Boers (Boere are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled Dutch Cape Colony, but the United Kingdom incorporated it into the British Empire in 1806.
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Clarens, South Africa
Clarens is a small town situated in the foothills of the Maluti Mountains in the Free State province of South Africa and nicknamed the "Jewel of the Eastern Free State".
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Free State (province)
The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.
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Great Trek
The Great Trek (Die Groot Trek; De Grote Trek) was a northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration.
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Harrismith
Harrismith is a large town in the Free State province of South Africa.
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Lesotho
Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
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Mfecane
The Mfecane, also known by the Sesotho names Difaqane or Lifaqane (all meaning "crushing," "scattering," "forced dispersal," or "forced migration"), was a historical period of heightened military conflict and migration associated with state formation and expansion in Southern Africa.
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Moshoeshoe I
Moshoeshoe I (– 11 March 1870) was the first king of Lesotho.
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Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
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Orange Free State
The Orange Free State (Oranje Vrijstaat; Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902.
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Phuthaditjhaba
Phuthaditjhaba (originally Witsieshoek), is a town in the Free State province of South Africa.
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QwaQwa
QwaQwa was a bantustan ("homeland") in the central eastern part of South Africa.
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Sotho people
The Sotho, also known as the Basotho, are a prominent Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to Southern Africa.
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Standerton
Standerton is a large commercial and agricultural town lying on the banks of the Vaal River in Mpumalanga, South Africa, which specialises in cattle, dairy, maize and poultry farming.
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Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality
The Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality (Masepala wa Setereke wa Thabo Mofutsanyana; UMasipala wesiFunda iThabo Mofutsanyana) is one of the 5 districts of the Free State province of South Africa.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa.
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See also
Caves of South Africa
- Blombos Cave
- Boesmansgat
- Boomplaas Cave
- Burchell's Shelter
- Cango Caves
- Cooper's Cave
- Echo Caves
- Gladysvale Cave
- Gondolin Cave
- Haasgat
- Heerenlogement
- Isinuka Mud Caves and Sulphur Pools
- Klasies River Caves
- Kromdraai fossil site
- List of caves in South Africa
- Makapansgat
- Malapa Fossil Site, Cradle of Humankind
- Mapoch's Caves
- Melkhoutboom Cave
- Minnaar's Cave
- Motsetsi
- Nelson Bay Cave
- Onmeetbarediepgat
- Pinnacle Point
- Plovers Lake
- Rising Star Cave
- Rose Cottage Cave
- Sacred caves of the Basotho
- Sibudu Cave
- Stadsaal Caves
- Sterkfontein
- Sudwala Caves
- Taung
- Witsie's Cave (Lekhalong la Witsie)
- Wonder Cave (Kromdraai, Gauteng)
- Wonderwerk Cave
Historic sites in South Africa
- Big Hole
- Castle of Good Hope
- Castles in South Africa
- Company's Garden
- De Nieuwe Molen
- Donkin Heritage Trail
- Elandsputte cattle dip
- Forts in South Africa
- Golden Acre (Cape Town)
- Kaditshwene
- Kingdom of Mapungubwe
- Koffiefontein mine
- Koopmans-de Wet House
- List of heritage sites in South Africa
- National heritage sites of South Africa
- Onze Rust
- Provincial heritage site (South Africa)
- Sedan Beehive stone huts
- St John's Cathedral, Mthatha
- St Michael and St George Cathedral, Makhanda
- St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
- Witsie's Cave (Lekhalong la Witsie)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witsie's_Cave_(Lekhalong_la_Witsie)