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Setlagole ''(Se tla a gola)'' is a historical Setswana village next to the N18 in
Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality The Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality (), formerly the Central District Municipality, is one of the four districts of the North West province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng, which is also the capital of the province. It was nam ...
in the North West province of
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
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History


Battle of Mosita

From Setlagole the Barolong and Bahurutshe launched their own hit-and-run attacks into the Rustenburg and Schoonspruit as well as southern Marico districts. Thereafter, Setlagole became a staging post for raids on Boer farms in the western Transvaal.  A surviving Boer document records the loss of 287 cattle from eight Schoonspruit farms during one such foray."


Megabreccia outcrops

"A 25 to 30 km wide magnetic anomaly within the >2.79 Ga granite-greenstone rocks of the northwestern Kaapvaal Craton is spatially associated with megabreccia outcrops near the village of Setlagole in the North West Province, South Africa. The breccia comprises angular to rounded ciasts of TTG gneisses, granites and granodiorites, with lesser amounts of amphibolite, calc-silicate rock and banded iron-formation as well as unusual dark grey to black, irregular, centimetre- to decimetre-sized ciasts that show evidence of fluidal behaviour and plastic deformation during incorporation into the breccia."


References

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274325697_A_possible_mesoarchaean_impact_structure_at_Setlagole_North_West_Province_South_Africa_Aeromagnetic_and_field_evidence {{Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality Populated places in the Ratlou Local Municipality