Old As The Hills

Tolwane had lived to experience it all. She was 23 when President Ian Khama’s great grandfather Khama III died.  She was 25 when Sir Seretse Khama’s father Sekgoma II died. She was there when Tshekedi Khama ascended to the throne in 1926, and she was already an old woman of 66 years when Seretse Khama founded the Republic of Botswana, and was 76-years-old when Botswana introduced its own currency, the Pula and Thebe, in 1976.

Tolwane lived to see her four offsprings’ hair turning grey from old age. Two of them have already died of old age while the remaining two, at 85 and 82 years are also aged.