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Initially when Africans travelled for a long distance from the North to get to town on a donkey cart, they had to rest in this area on their way back home. There are couple of stories behind the name Nobody some villagers claims Nobody Bold textcame about when somebody in the village called a meeting in which everybody present agreed on one or the other decision but nobody was prepared to take responsibility for it.

Whereas some say the area was haunted by a ghost of its former owner, a white man who told the Africans that he wanted "Nobody to come and sleep in my land" From then on, this area was called 'ga-Nobody (pronounced GA-NNO-PO-TRI').

Some says the name had its origins back in the days when the apartheid government was implementing its forced removals policy that saw close-knit communities being mercilessly torn apart.

Some of the affected villagers had refused to go where government officials wanted them to go and decided to settle on a piece of land that apparently belonged to nobody. That's how nobody's land became Nobody. The funny one is name was inspired by the William Brothers' gospel hit I'm Just A Nobody. But this claim cannot possibly be true because Nobody is pretty old, while I'm Just A Nobody is fairly new.

Nevertheless, the song's lyrics - I'm just a nobody/trying to tell everybody/about somebody/who can save everybody - are said to inspire almost everybody in Nobody.

Now the area falls under Kgosi Mothapo and it is still called Nobody The Place to be !

Nevertheless Nobody produced some of the prominent people including the Deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe who has his roots at Ga Mothiba, also the former provincial secretary for the Anc Mr Soviet Lekganyane hails from Ntshitshane under Kgoshi Mothiba