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Maanhaarrand Maanhaarrand is a village in the Moot Valley. The area is named after a distinctive ridge called Hogsback ("manhaar" in Dutch). It is also a syenite dyke in geological terms, the highest point and principal watershed in the Moot. Intrusions of syenite "penetrated the Magaliesberg from the Pilanesberg volcano as molten material which radiated out from the crater, forming dykes several hundred kilometres long: one such dyke runs through Breedtsnek and Maanhaarrand", according to Vincent Garruthers in his book, The Magaliesberg.
History
Garruthers says that "the Tswana people talk of a time many centuries ago when their ancestors migrated from a mythical source known as the Cave of Lowe" and moved southward through what are now Zambia and Botswana before settling over the highveld interior of southern Africa. "Among the first people to have broken away from the main stream of these sothward migrations were the Hurutshe, who established themselves along the Madikwe (Marico) River," according to the author. The Hurutshe's principal settlement, Kaditshwene, had an estimated population in 1800 that was similar in size to Cape Town at the time. An important offshoot of the Hurutshe, the Kwena goup, moved westwards into the Magaliesberg, flourished and settled beyond the Oori (Crocodile) River. Modimosana, the chief of the Kwena, divided his chiefdom among his four sons. "Of these, the Kwena Mmatau were particularly successful and eventually emerged as the dominant group…". By 1800, the group "had constructed extensive stonewalled settlements all along the southern slopes of the Magaliesberg from Magatasnek to somewhere near the present village of Maanhaarrand".
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