The battle for the control of the R15 billion wealth of the platinum-rich North West Bakgatla tribe has turned nasty, with criminal allegations levelled against senior members of the tribe.

is the paramount chief of the tribe. The dispute surrounding the chieftaincy of the more than 300 000 Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela in Moruleng, surfaced when paramount chief Kgafela Kgafela II relocated ...

Before the stucco High Court Building in the temporary capital of Lobatsi, the chiefs of the Bangwaketsi and Bakgatla tribes strutted in black trousers and scarlet tunics given to their ...

At issue in the case before the Constitutional Court is a deal agreed with the council of the Bakgatla tribe to allow Pilanesberg Platinum Mines (PPM) to evict farmers in order to expand its open ...

Ahead of the third budget to be presented by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Thursday, Kgosi Nyalala Pilane, leader of ...

called on the minister to come forth and explain to Bakgatla why the government does not allow their rightful representative to sit in Ntlo ya Dikgosi. He added that as the tribe, they agreed to ...

Platinum junior Platmin’s strategy to consolidate mining ground near Rustenburg is back on track following deals that end the impasse with its empowerment and joint venture partner, the Bakgatla tribe ...

More evidence has emerged suggesting leaders of the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela abused their position to support ill-considered investments of the tribe's mineral wealth - seemingly to the benefit of private ...

The Lesetlheng community contended they were not approached in 2008 - when the surface lease agreement was entered into - as owners of the land but as members of the Bakgatla tribe. The 13 ...

Rustenburg — Every morning, ten elderly women of Bakgatla tribe kindle fire inside a traditional oven built more than 100 years ago to make indigenous bread. The clay dome-like oven is used for ...

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the Pallinghurst Investor Consortium, Platmin and the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela tribe on Thursday announced the conclusion of a transaction which will ...