Image Number: APN151820
Title: Rustenburg Coronation  Chief Edward Patric Lebone Molotlegi
Path:
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Drum Social Histories
Description: SAED:SOCIAL:PERSONALITY:DRUM OCTOBER 1959 � Proud and self-conscious, the khaki-clad Mafokeng Guards pave the way for the Chief down a dusty street of the village of Phokeng. In their wake too are local dignitaries, children and a few stray dogs. Rustenburg Coronation � It lasted three days. Fifteen thousand people came. Jazz bands, brass bands, the lot. Even the Minister of Bantu Administration looked in at the village of Phokeng for the coronation of Chief �dward Patric Lbone Molotlegi of the Bafokeng tribe. Joburg�s nitelife celebrities, professional men, teachers, factory workers, businessmen and the usual �guests� who turn up to everything going. They all flocked to the dusty, country village of Phokeng, near Rustenburg, in the Transvaal. It was going to be �The feast of the year,� (Photograph by Peter Magubane �Baileys Archives) NEG 3
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections:
Drum Social Histories
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5703 x 3784
Media Id: 69_181
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords:
Rustenburg,
North West Province,
South Africa,
history,
coronation of the King of the Bafokeng,
October 1959,
1959,
October,
street,
khakhi guards,
Peter Magubane,
dusty street,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No