Mafikeng links

In 1899 the town of Mafikeng became world famous as the site of a siege which lasted seven months. During the siege, a small group of boys formed a cadet corps which was one of the inspirations which led Robert Baden-Powell to found the Scout Movement.

One hundred years later, the South African Scout Association, in conjunction with the government of the Northwest Province, launched the Mafikeng SCENE, an international Scout Centre of Excellence for Nature and the Environment.

• The Mafikeng SCENE
  Scout Centre of Excellence for Nature and the Environment - the new Scout environmental centre in the Mafikeng Game Reserve, at the birthplace of Scouting.

• Of Bullets and Boys
  The story of Mafikeng and its connection with the birth of Scouting
  (a book by Jay Heale)

• The African Seeds of Scouting
  Including the story of the siege of Mafeking

• A quick history of Mafikeng

• Tourism in the Northwest Province of South Africa