About Mahikeng

Mahikeng, historically known as Mafeking, is best remembered for the 217-day Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War, when Colonel Robert Baden-Powell led the town's defence against Boer forces in a standoff that made international headlines and later informed the founding of the Scouting movement. The town became the capital of the British Bechuanaland Protectorate and, later, of the apartheid-era homeland of Bophuthatswana, a history reflected in landmarks like the Mmabatho Stadium and the Molema Museum. It remains the capital of North West province today, seat of the provincial legislature and government offices in the adjoining planned township of Mmabatho. The surrounding area is cattle-farming country on the edge of the Kalahari, and the town sits close to the Botswana border along a route that has long made it a regional trading post.

Mahikeng's nightlife opens with Mashabela Galane Mafikeng at the Peermont Walmont Hotel this week. Cookes Lake answers with The Groove - 4TH ANNUAL SOUL & KWAITO EXPERIENCE over the same weekend, while families can support a good cause at the Cocomelon Charity Event on Rooigrond's farmland. November brings the Breaking The Silence GBV Awareness Gospel Festival to the Mmabatho Convention Centre, and December closes out the year with the Mahika Mahikeng Gospel Music Festival.