"THE FALL AND RISE OF PHOKWANE"...

WHEN YOU RAISE MY LAND TO THE GROUND NOT ALL DID WE FALL BUT ROSE!...WHEN YOUR SAVIOUR WAS BORN (JESUS CHRIST) WHEN YOU CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH! I WAS MOURNING THE DEATH OF MY PEOPLE!

IN 1897, KGOSI GALESHEWE AND 14 OTHER BATLHAPING STOOD TRIAL AS THE RING-LEADERS OF THE SO-CALLED ''PHOKWANE REBELLION'', A SERIES OF EVENTS LINKED TO THE REGION OF PHOKWANE IN TODAY'S NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE AND WHICH WOULD LATER LEAD TO ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT COLONIAL MILITARY CAMPAIGNS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE ''LANGEBERG REBELLION'' FROM 1896 TO 1897.
CHARGED WITH MURDER AND SEDITION BY THE BRITISH EMPIRE, KGOSI GALESHEWE PLEADED GUILTY, A PLEA WHICH WAS TO SHOCK THE SOUTH AFRICAN PUBLIC WHILE CONTINUING THE GLOBAL INTEREST IN THE POLITICS OF THE REGION AND IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.

GALESHEWE'S GUILTY PLEA HAD A PURPOSE- HOW BETTER TO RAISE THE BATLHAPING TRIBE'S OBJECTIONS AND RESISTANCE TO THE UNJUST CONCEPTUALISATIONS,POLICIES AND PRACTICES IMPOSED AND METED OUT BY THE COLONISERS WITH REGARDS TO LAND,TRADE,DIGNITY AND PERSONHOOD...#PHOKWANE CHRONICLES TRUE STORY.