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een interacting with one another in the form of marriages, trade and other
forms. It is therefore necessary to briefly look into the natural features of the
Soutpansberg and Blouberg ranges as their occupants related to the
shaping of identities in the Makgabeng area.
The Soutpansberg range which is found to the north-east of Makgabeng, is
coeval with the middle to the upper part of the Waterberg Group and its
reddish sedimentary rocks and associated lavas were originally assigned to
the Waterberg System by the Geological Survey 90 . From 1973 to 1975, H.
Jansen, senior official of the South African Geological Services, co-
supervised the Geological Survey team which provisionally divided the
Soutpansberg succession into lower, middle and upper portions 91 . It was
also found that the Soutpansberg correlated on the 1955 edition of the
geological map with the Dominion Reef, Loskop and Waterberg Systems, all
belonging to the Waterberg System 92 . According to Jansen, however, the
Soutpansberg succession, which now constitutes an independent group,
represents accumulation over a much larger time interval, i.e., from early to
post- Waterberg 93 .
90 L. E. Kent, Stratigraphy of South Africa. Part 1: Lithostratigraphy of the Republic of South
Africa, South West Africa/Namibia and the Republics of Bophuthatswana, Transkei and Venda,
p. 327.
91 L. E. Kent, Stratigraphy of South Africa, p 327.
92 Ibid, p. 328.
93 Ibid, p 335.
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