Mashishing

Mashishing takes its name from the long green grass of the eastern highlands. The surrounding escarpment was part of Bokoni, a region of stone-walled homesteads and terraced fields stretching from the hills near Carolina past Mashishing. From the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth, farming communities built and cultivated this landscape on a considerable scale. Among Bokoni's remembered centres were Moxomatsi, Mohlo-Pela and Khutwaneng, where settlements and fields were bound together by walls and paths.