Luka Jantjie: Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier

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1. S.M. Molema's biographies of the two nineteenth century Barolong leaders are Montshiwa 1815–1896, Barolong Chief and Patriot (Cape Town: Struik, 1966) and Chief Moroka: His Life and Times (Cape Town: Struik, 1950). Valuable though fallible ethnographic information is available in P-L. Breutz, A History of the Batswana and the Origins of Bophuthatswana, A Survey of the Tribes of the Batswana, S.Ndebele, Qwaqwa and Botswana (Ramsgate: the Author, 1989). See also N. Jacobs, Environment, Power, and Justice: A South African History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), M. Legassick, The Politics of a South African Frontier, The Griqua, The Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1790–1840, (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliografen, 2010) (based on his doctorate of 1969); C. Murray, Black Mountain: Land, Class, and Power in the Eastern Orange Free State,1808s to 1980s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), and the cultural anthropological studies of the Comaroffs on the Tshidi-Barolong: J. Comaroff, Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984) and J. Comaroff and J. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1997). For a recent history of the Bafokeng, see, B. Mbenga and A. Manson, ‘People of the Dew’: A History of the Bafokeng of the Rustenburg/Phokeng Region from Early Times to 2000 (Cape Town: Jacana Press, 2010).