The major dikgotla :: Mmegi Online

Looking back, I find that I first commented in Mmegi on the historical importance of the country’s physical dikgotla in an article a little more than 10 years ago, In it, I referred to the major events that had occurred in the dikgotla in Moshupa, Serowe, Molepolole and Mochudi, and noted how in so many places, the old historical features of those dikgotla were being lost with the old being made to make way for the new.

Since then, the push for modernisation and change first made evident in Kanye in 2002, has been inexorable.

There, it had been apparently agreed that Kgosi Bathoen’s 1914 office in the middle of the kgotla should be demolished and be replaced by a new, tribal administration building which was probably four times its size. The decision would have destroyed the historical kgotla and involved the dispersion of the Ngwaketse royals who had been laid to rest there in unmarked graves.

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