The Mighty Mapogos

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(04-14-2023, 05:32 AM)Ttimemarti Wrote: Was there Actually a fight between mr t and makhulu everytime I hear about a fight between them that led to the “split” it’s a video of mr t charging makhulu and pretty boy and mr t and pretty boy fighting, from what i know mr t and kinky tail tried to take the east but couldn’t them returned west to get dreadlocks Rasta and pretty boy so all 5 could take the east then the older 3 went back to the west so did mr t really challenge mak or no?

There're many accounts of all 6 Mapogos fighting a "battle royale" over scraps, as well as an account from 2010 by Khimbini of Makhulu and Mr.T fighting and chasing each other around over mating rights of the Ximhungwe females ( in heat again after Mr.T killed the 3 cubs ).  I can also recall an all out fight that broke out over a buffalo in 2011. So they definitely fought each other, likely multiple times.

Now, did a huge fight over mating rights happened in 2008 between the two that may have contributed to the split? A Nkorho ranger claims in the documentary he saw it himself, saying it was the biggest fight he has ever seen and speculate it may have been one of the reasons for the split. There are some clear false information in the documentary, like a "Northern Coalition" of 4 males that the Mapogos fought, which is completely made up so go figure, maybe the the TV staff asked him to tell that made up tale, or maybe it did happen, difficult to say.

The North and East were conquered by them as a coalition of 6, before the split, they killed the dominant male of from Londolozi ( central territory ) in late 2006/early 2007 and killed Blondie, dominant male of Djuma/North in december 2007, ousting his partner Dozie at the same time. Mr.T and KT moved there permanently in mid 2008 expanding further east to Mala Mala and defended their territory mostly on their own, they lost Djuma/North to Gijimas in late 2009 and all the rest to Majingilane in mid 2010.

This thing about "caling for help" is a complex situation because the 4 older Mapogos saw the West as their core territory and Djuma and Londolozi as secondary land that they visited here and there, while Mlowathi after the split saw the east as their core territory and abandoned the west completely, very rarely visiting and not to any significant degree. In august 2008 the Western Eyrefield Mapogos were with the Mlowathi when they attacked the Rollercoaster male and the Styx pride ( it's even caught on video ), and later 3 Mapogos were seeing attacking the pride again, but after that it was only Mr.T and KT. January 30th 2009 saw 4 Mapogos together in Djuma ( North ), Makhulu, PB, Dreadlocks and Mr.T. Going by the rangers words the other 2 were around that area as well and were spending a good amount of time there fighting over mating rights. In march of that year the 3 Western Eyrefield Mapogos were filmed in Djuma too. In May 2010 one of the Mlowathi was seen with the 4 Western Mapogos in Leopard Hills.

With all that said I think it's quite possible that the other Mapogos could "summon" the others to fight in the east, problem is that if they couldn't find the enemy quickly, the Western Mapogos would lose interest and return to their core territory in the west, which was what happened when KT died and Mr.T returned, for the first time in many months the remaining Mapogos moved back to Londolozi roaring together, but they couldn't find what Mr.T was trying to lead them to and returned, then Mr.T killed the cubs and they were too busy fighting themselves to ever think about expanding again. Reply