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Witsie's Cave (Lekhalong la Witsie), the Glossary

Index Witsie's Cave (Lekhalong la Witsie)

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

  1. 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.

  2. Caves of South Africa
  3. 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

Historic sites in South Africa

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witsie's_Cave_(Lekhalong_la_Witsie)