Ganyesa is a town situated along the R378 Regional Route in the North West Province of South Africa.
The town is located approximately 70 km north-west of Vryburg and about 170 km south-west of the provincial capital Mahikeng.
Ganyesa is an administrative centre for the far north-western area of the province, hosting the head offices of the Kagisano-Molopo Local Municipality, a magistrate’s court and various national and provincial government offices.
The town falls under the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality.
Majority of Ganyesa’s population is Black and speak Setswana as their first language.
History
Ganyesa is the main town of the Barolong boo Mariba, a faction of the Barolong that split from the Kuruman community in about 1765 under Kgosi-Kgolo Mochware and lived as pastoralists and hunters.
In the late 19th century, competition with Kora traders for the Kalahari trade led to friction between the communities.
After the British established the British Bechuanaland colony in 1886, Ganyesa was designated as a native reserve, with an area that in the late 1950s was estimated at 12,858 square miles (33,300 km2). It was later that Kgosi-Kgolo Mochware made the strongest form of Barolong boo Mariba and his descendants were; Makgobi, Gaetsalwe, Pheko, Selepile, Borupile.
