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Sechele And The White Ants

It was also about this time that the Transvaal Boers began to bring themselves into hostile contact with the native tribes on their borders.

Sechele was attacked by them, but not conquered. Indeed he retaliated upon the Boers so successfully the fainthearted native chiefs living on the Boer border came with their tribes and placed themselves under Sechele.

He now encouraged English traders to come into the country, and he, and the tribes under him, possessed themselves of guns and ammunition and horses, and became formidable opponents of Boer aggression”- From 1892 Sechele obituary by Rev. Rodger Price.

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