In search of Batswapong heritage in Lerala

Friday, May 13, 2016

Moroka and his assistants at Old Lerala Kgotla. PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

Lerala chief, Kgosi Sello Moroka oozes with passion when he describes the little known Batswapong’s mystical heritage. “It is ‘Batswa poong’ literally meaning those that come from a bull,” he begins.

“It actually meant those that come from superior traditional magic powers.”

Batswapong were reputed for possessing exceptional traditional healing powers that attracted the sick and those that wanted to ‘toughen themselves’, to come to the sacred Tswapong Hills.

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