Talk:Clocolan
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What odes this have to do with Clocolan?
[edit]Moved from article to talk. Other than being in the vicinity, what does this have to do with the town? RJFJR (talk) 20:51, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
South West of Clocolan on the road to Ladybrand is a flat topped mountain (mesa) called Mabolela. This mountain was one of the strongholds of the Basotho. During the first two decades of the nineteenth century Shaka kaSenzangakhona unified many clans in what is today called kwaZulu Natal into the Zulu Nation. Many battles were fought and the wars fought in Natal spilled over into the Free State. Mantatisi, the leader of the Batlokwa moved from the area round present day Harrismith to near what is now Ficksburg to escape these wars. This lady and her subjects was much feared and raided the whole of the present eastern Free State. She was stopped from entering the Cape Colony by British forces near Aliwal North. She was succeeded by her son Sekonyela. He was the chief from whom Piet Retief and his Voortrekkers had to get Dingane's stolen cattle in 1837 before they could settle in Natal.
Moshoeshoe I created the Basotho Nation by collecting the remnants of small clans that had been dispersed and their belongings stolen and giving them protection and safety in the mountain fortresses in what would later become Lesotho and the Eastern Free State. This period of conflict was called the Mfecane.