Kopje

On October 31st the Boers ventured upon an attack on Cannon Kopje, which is a small fort and eminence to the south of the town.

The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The ministry had requested 15 trillion dollars for the Parliament to be built in the Kopje area.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

In 1020 AD the Zhizo peoples where pushed out and north of the area by a new influx of the so called the “Leopards Kopje” people.

Mapungubwe: Southern Africa’s oldest discovered Kingdom 2007

From the 12th century, gold mining increased in the Leopard's Kopje area.

f. Southern Africa 2001

In the 12th century, significant changes took place in Great Zimbabwe, through which Leopard's Kopje exports were traded to the coast.

f. Southern Africa 2001

By the 12th century, Leopard's Kopje people were engaged in gold mining.

f. Southern Africa 2001

The Leopard's Kopje culture (proto-Shona) were farmers who also kept cattle and lived in semipermanent villages in southwestern present-day Zimbabwe and northern Transvaal.

f. Southern Africa 2001

Both Zimbabwe and Leopard's Kopje developed extensive trading networks and political centralization.

f. Southern Africa 2001

New cultures, including the Leopard's Kopje tradition in modern Zimbabwe, supplanted the early Iron Age cultures of this region.

f. Southern Africa 2001

Erven surrounding the existing national monument at the earlier stone age site of Canteen Kopje at Barkly West will be provisionally declared a national monument.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997