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Jantjie Mothibi

Kgosi Jantjie Mothibi was a Batlhaping chief. He was the eldest son of Mothibi and his Griqua wife Kebogile. Jantjie and his followers occupied a large area of land stretching from Majeakgoro up to Dikgatlong in the province now known as the Northern Cape in South Africa.

Following the discovery of diamonds in Kimberley in the 1860s, Jantjie became embroiled in the dispute of land ownership in the area.

Kgosi Jantjie along with Kgosi Botlhasitse of the Batlhaping people took part in the 1879 Griqualand West Uprising. It was suppressed by a colonial force and virtually all the leading authorities of Jantjie's polity were either killed or captured. Jantjie died at Manyeding, near Kuruman, Northern Cape.

"We find written in the Book,'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife nor his ox", but I now find that [it is] the white people who covet the property of others." - Kgosi Jantjie, after the 1871 land court settlement.