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Bahananwa and Bakone in Makgabeng are concerned. W.D. Hammond-
Tooke’s works (Hammond-Tooke, 1937 and 1993) are also general studies
where the Bakone and Bahananwa are dealt with generally under a broad
group of the Sotho, as part of the whole Bantu-speaking communities of
South Africa.
The Makgabeng area seemed to have attracted individuals and researchers
mainly because of its rock art. Some of these individuals and researchers
then wrote about their experiences in that area. As early as 1916, the
Reverend Noel Roberts, a missionary in the Makgabeng area, wrote about
several rock art sites which contained paintings of fat-tailed sheep and other
images 25 . These were found to have been painted by the San. There were
also late white finger paintings of trains and long-horned cattle.
From 1947 onwards, Clifford Thompson, a botanist, visited Makgabeng on
many occasions and wrote about at least twenty rock art sites 26 .
Thompson’s son, Nipper, later located and documented several sites in the
eastern plateau of Makgabeng in the 1960s and 1970s 27 . Other sites were
mentioned by Revil Mason (1962) and Jalmar and Ione Rudner (1970) 28 .
25 E. B. Eastwood and J. van Schalkwyk, The rock art of the Makgabeng Plateau. Volume 1.
Introducing the Makgabeng and rock paintings of Gallashiels, p. 48.
26 E. B. Eastwood and J. van Schalkwyk, The rock art of the Makgabeng Plateau, p. 48.
27 Ibid, p. 48.
28 Ibid, p. 48.
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