Setlagole

Setlagole Se tla a gola
Setlagole Setlagole
Coordinates: 26.287°S 25.117°E / -26.287; 25.117
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
Municipality	Ratlou
Area
• Total	30.78 km2 (11.88 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	19,452
• Density	630/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	98.4%
• Coloured	1.2%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	0.1%
• Other	0.1%
First languages (2011)
• Tswana	91.7%
• Sotho	1.9%
• English	1.7%
• S. Ndebele	1.2%
• Other	3.5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	2773
Area code	018

Setlagole (Se tla a gola) is a historical Setswana village next to the N18 in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa.

History

Battle of Mosita

From Setlagole the Barolong and Bahurutshe launched their own hit-and-run attacks into the Rustenburg and Schoonspruit as well as southern Marico districts.

Thereafter, Setlagole became a staging post for raids on Boer farms in the western Tranvaal.  A surviving Boer document records the loss of 287 cattle from eight Schoonspruit farms during one such foray."

Megabreccia outcrops

"A 25 to 30 km wide magnetic anomaly within the >2.79 Ga granite-greenstone rocks of the northwestern Kaapvaal Craton is spatially associated with megabreccia outcrops near the village of Setlagole in the North West Province, South Africa. The breccia comprises angular to rounded ciasts of TTG gneisses, granites and granodiorites, with lesser amounts of amphibolite, calc-silicate rock and banded iron-formation as well as unusual dark grey to black, irregular, centimetre- to decimetre-sized ciasts that show evidence of fluidal behaviour and plastic deformation during incorporation into the breccia."

References

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274325697_A_possible_mesoarchaean_impact_structure_at_Setlagole_North_West_Province_South_Africa_Aeromagnetic_and_field_evidence