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Mafikeng or Mafeking (both: măf`əkĭng), town, North West prov., N central South Africa, near the border of Botswana. It is the twin town of the much larger Mmabatho, capital of North West prov., and is the market for the surrounding cattle-raising and dairy-farming area and is an important railroad depot. Mafikeng was founded in 1885 on the site of an African settlement. In the South African War South African War or Boer War, 1899–1902, war of the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State against Great Britain.
..... Click the link for more information. (1899–1902) the British garrison there, under Lord Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron , 1857–1941, British soldier, founder of the Boy Scouts.
..... Click the link for more information. , withstood a Boer Boer [Du.,=farmer], inhabitant of South Africa of Dutch or French Huguenot descent. Boers are also known as Afrikaners. They first settled (1652) near the Cape of Good Hope in what was formerly Cape Province.
..... Click the link for more information. (Afrikaner) siege for 217 days; the fort is now a national monument. Mafikeng was the extraterritorial capital of the Bechuanaland protectorate until it became independent as Botswana Botswana , officially Republic of Botswana, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,640,000), 231,804 sq mi (600,372 sq km), S central Africa. It is bordered by Namibia on the west and north, by Zambia at a narrow strip in the north, by Zimbabwe on the east, and by South Africa
..... Click the link for more information. in 1965.

Mafikeng

a town in N South Africa: besieged by the Boers for 217 days (1899--1900) during the second Boer War: administrative headquarters of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland until 1965, although outside its borders. Pop.: 23 650 (2001)

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Back in Mafikeng, Konji worked for four years at the local hospital.

Ambassador extraordinaire: South Africa's new ambassador to France, ... by Chatel, Benedicte / New African

He moved to Mafikeng as a clerk and court interpreter.

Culture and social environment in the pre-colonial era by Mzamane, Mbulelo Vizikhungo / Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

But his incredible journey almost came to a premature end in 1844 when he was attacked by a lion at his first mission post, near present-day Mafikeng, South Africa.

THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY; DAVID LIVINGSTONE WENT FROM A BLANTYRE MILL ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)