“The Renaissance of Ba Ga Mohlala ********** HISTORY IN MOTION AND HISTORY IN THE MAKING - RECLAIMING OUR GLORY - OUR PLACE UNDER THE SUN The Book is the snapshot of Ba Ga Mohlala, the past, the present and the future . The history part of the book will help to locate and know Ba Ga Mohlala in, and in relation to Afican and South African History. The present will give on overview or a snapshot of of Ba Ga Ga Mohlala at this present moment, their development, growth, initiatives and milestones. The future will give you Ga Mohlala future perspective, their burning desires and plans to achieve their strategic objectives. The Book was published in December 2017. THIS BOOK WAS PROUDLY PUBLISHED BY BANERENG PROJECTS AND CONSULTING.” HistoryBooksMohlalaBanarengBa Ga MohlalaPekwa Nicholas MohlalaShoonoord Author:Pekwa Nicholas Mohlala
“Most of our history, and most of all books on the origin of the Bapedi people, the political structure of the Bapedi people of Sekhukhuneland, and African studies in general were written by settlers. The settlers gathered information not for the benefit of black people but for the white South African government to enable their government to come up with political and military strategies against black people or for social engineering of black nation in general. So, given the politicized and racial environment in which all this white writers lived, how are we going to trust that their whiteness and institutional racism did not affected how they made sense of the information or data that they collected and how they recorded them, in order to fix tribes, clans, and black nation in general.” HistoryBooksSouth AfricaBapediBa Ga MohlalaPekwa Nicholas MohlalaPedi Author:Pekwa Nicholas Mohlala
“The mighty Mohlala Schoonoord polity has collapsed, vanished from the face of the earth. Its collapse was mainly due to internal strife and connflict, siblings turned on oneonother, most of them ended in exile, and only few of them stayed behind And the few that stayed behind lived like foreigesrs and slaves in the land of their forefathers.” HistorySchoonoordBanarengBapediBakoneBa Ga MohlalaBatlokwaBakoni Author:Pekwa Nicholas Mohlala
“The history of Ba Ga Mohlala in Schoonoord, most of it, is violent and written in blood. Many people were killed, and assassinated by their own people and also in tribal wars. Ba Ga Mohlala in Schoonoord have not known peace, both internal, and external for centuries. Today they are split and divided than ever before and there are more hostilities between families. Most of this is because of their stubborn nature and the fact that they were warriors who affectionately loved war and spent most part of their lives as warriors. Segodi Sekgekge and his son Hlong Dinake spent their entire lives up to their old ages as warriors. Dispite all the infighting and killings, no outside enemy can infiltrate Ba Ga Mohlala in in Schoonoord. They always had, still have unity of purpose. If one of them is attacked by an outside person or enemy, or they want to achieve something, they always, and will always put their differences apart and fight the enemy or execute a project together, united.” HistorySchoonoordBanarengBapediBakoneBa Ga MohlalaBatlokwaBakoniPekwa Author:Pekwa Nicholas Mohlala
“There are two groups of Batlokwa in South Africa The first group is Batlokwa/Batlokwe Ba Ga Lethebe who was also known as Tlokwe. Tlokwe/Lethebe was a leader of the group that is referred to in the book 'Tja Magoshi le Dilete' who stole Matlala's cattle and fled to Mogodumo. It is this man that Batlowa Ba Lebowa (including the collective Banareng and Ba Ga Mohlala) were named after, he was the chief of Ba Ga Dikgale who (Ba Ga Dikgale) were at that time called Bakgaladi, and Lethebe later called himself Dikgale ( that was around the year 1800). The second group is is Batlokwa/Batlokoa Ba Ga Kgwadi who was also called Motlokwa/Motlokoa ( this group include Batlokwa Ba Mantatise in Gaborone in Botswana, Batlokwa Ba Sekonyela in Lesotho, Batlokwa Ba Sebetwane in Zimbabwe, Batlokwa Ba Machaka and Matoks in Botlokwa in Limpopo, and all Batlokwa in Free State KZN and North West. Batlokwa Ba Machaka and Matoks arrived in Lebowa (Limpopo) from Harrismith around 1825/27 (they left Harrismith in 1820) and settled at the present day Botlokwa which was already called/named Botlowa after Batlokwa Ba Lethebe/Dikgale, they only arrived there after majority or most of us (Batlokwa Ba Lethebe/Dikgale) have left the area. The history of this group is well documented. Kgwadi is the brother of among others, Diale gave birth to Bapedi of Maroteng Ga Sekhukhune (Mohlaletse and Mamone Ga Sekwati), and Mosia who gave birth to Moshweshwe of Lesotho (Bashweshwe).” HistoryBanarengBapediBakoneBa Ga MohlalaBatlokwaBakoniPekwa Author:Pekwa Nicholas Mohlala
“I have read a lot of history books and gone through a lot of history materials. The amount of information and the way that information is presented in most of those books and materials, for starters, was overwhelming for an average person and a novice like me. So in all my history books and writings, I have decided to present the information in such a way that it will be comprehensible (and in a simplified form) for ordinary and novice people. I decided to to do that because those (average and novice people) are a group of people I am writing for.” HistoryBooksBanarengBapediBa Ga MohlalaBatlokwaPekwa Nicholas Mohlala Author:Pekwa Nicholas Mohlala
“As Ba Ga Mohlala, we are working to build something that will speak for us long after we are gone.” HistorySchoonoordBanarengBapediBakoneBa Ga MohlalaBatlokwaBakoni Author:Pekwa Nicholas Mohlala