Kgosi galeshewe biography for kids

Kgosi Galeshewe
Born	1840 South Africa
Died	1927 Magogong

Kgosi (Chief) Galeshewe, (c.

Thrust into the chieftaincy of the Ba Tlhaping tribe of Tswana-speaking people when he was born in , Galeshewe was to become one of the heroic figures who.

“Thrust into the chieftaincy of the Batlhaping Tribe of the Setswana speaking people when he was born in , Galeshewe was to become of the heroic figures who.

Kgosi (Chief) Galeshewe, (c.

Kgosi Galeshewe sentenced to 12 years gaol for his part in the Uprising.

Kgosi (Chief) GALESHEWE, (c.

1840 - 1927), was a chief of the Batlhaping group in South Africa. He was an anti-colonial revolutionary and orchestrated rebellions against the Cape Colony government. The Galeshewe Township in the Sol Plaatje Municipality, Kimberley, has been named after him.

A South African Navyfast attack craft has also been named after him.

Galeshewe got its name from Chief Kgosi Gale- shewe of the Bathlaping tribe, who led a rebellion against the Cape Colony Government's decision to kill all.

Galeshewe was born in 1840 near Taung, South Africa.

Revolutionary activity

After diamonds were famously discovered in Kimberley in the mid 1800s, colonists from the Cape Colony began to move into the interior in search of opportunities at the soon to become profitable diamond mines.

The settler colonies (mostly British) moving into the interior closer to the extraction plains came into direct conflict with many indigenous people living near the Orange River. By the 1870s the second Diamond rush was underway.^[1] A