The Great 1925 Indaba in Gaborone and the Bakgatla demonstrate rare skills

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

The caption of a photo related to this one states, ‘Natives leading the eight oxen which were presented to the Prince by the Chiefs at the Indaba, Gaborone’.

From the photos which Schapera later took of the 1928 initiates (to be Machama) all of whom were similarly attired, it would appear that those eight young men were also Kgatla initiates.

But the Indaba held by the Prince of Wales in Gaborone took place in 1925, a year in which there was no bogwera in Mochudi.

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