Ganyesa

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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Coordinates: 26°35′27″S 24°9′34″E
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
District	Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
Municipality	Kagisano/Molopo
Area [1]
• Total	21.46 km2 (8.29 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	19,290
• Density	900/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	98.4%
• Coloured	0.7%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	0.1%
• Other	0.5%
First languages (2011) [1]
• 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 at 12,858 square miles (33,300 km²). It was later that Kgosi-Kgolo Mochware made the strongest form of Barolong boo Mariba and His descendants were 1.Makgobi

2.Gaetsalwe

3.Pheko

4.Selepile

5.Borupile

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