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Mafikeng

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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
..... Click the link for more information. , withstood a Boer Boer (br, bôr) [Du.
..... 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 (bŏtswä`nə), officially Republic of Botswana, republic (2005 est. pop.
..... Click the link for more information.  in 1965.


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President Mandela's speech to the ANC's Mafikeng party conference in December 1997 - thought to be largely the work of his deputy and successor, Mbeki - was replete with such references.
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