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(09-26-2022, 04:07 PM)Hairy tummy Wrote: Brilliant work, thanks. Did the mantimahles and mpondo not have bigger territories?
They had big, but being in Kruger, we actually dont know how exactly big.
We know that Mpondos territory around mid 2019 - early 2020 streched from around Renosterkoppies to around Afsaal, based of their sightings, and then around mid 2020, 3 Mpondos where seen all the way to Lion Sands and Skukuza, ousting DeLaportes, while 2 stayed in Jock area.
That was too vast of a territory even for them, eventualy is prob the reason of their downfall in late 2020, only 1 Mpondo survived to early 2021.
Having such a vast territory, even for big coalitions, its actually not that "great" because they are too scattered and divided, they can easily get targeted (same thing happened to Mapogos).
Mantimahles at their peak around 2018-19 also had massive territory, approx. in between Skukuza - Leeupan - s79 - Nwatimhiri quadrant.
Obiviously towards mid to late 2019, 4 of them started to abandon their northern territory and focused on the southern areas, while 5th lost northern area to S. Avocas.