From marginali(a)sed Malaboch to an annotating Mmalebôhô

Lize Kriel

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria
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12 Rae, Malaboch, p 40 It is a terribly derogatory song and really not worthy of yet another translation - the one made at the time of the campaign is in Rae's book The phrase I am quoting here literally states (and the literal implication is what I am after): "Malaboch! Malaboch! We got you!"
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24 Mmalebôhô was held in the Pretoria Gaol until 1900, when the British marched into the Boer capital and released him He went back to Blouberg and ruled over the Hananwa until his death in 1939 Percy Fitzpatrick served his sentence for complicity in the Jameson Raid in the same prison as Mmalebôhô, and wrote his observation of the Hananwa kgosi reading into one of his letters to his wife The references are all in the book