The 'first' people of Dithejwane to share their history

Dithubaruba Symposium, a build-up event towards Dithubaruba Cultural festival will be held for the third year in a row at University Of Botswana on August 23 under the theme ‘sago la moeng’.

Event organiser, Petleke Tlamelo Letlole told Arts & Culture that the event will start at 2pm because they want to target historians, academics and the other tribes at large.

He said the theme ‘sago la moeng’ means what a person finds in a new place. “We are trying to reflect the understanding of people who were found at Dithejwane when Kgosi Sechele and his people retreated after the battle of Dimawe in August 30, 1852,” he said.

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