Setswana Week Celebrated In Style

Not far from the Kgotla, was a Setswana house that was built with the help of the school's ancillary staff. The Friday programme was divided into two sessions with the afternoon session held at the Kgotla and the evening session in the school auditorium.
The place around the Kgotla was decorated with ditlatlana/ditotwana, maselo, digo and mafeelo a Setswana. There were also some displays of paintings with Setswana themes around the area and dried traditional Setswana foods such as mosutlhwane, letlhodi, lengangale, ditloo, manoko, dinawa tsa Setswana and others.

As one would expect, there was a kgosi sitting in the Kgotla, draped in a leopard skin, holding a flywhisk (seditse) and sitting on his 'throne' with all the pomp. Sitting in the shade of a traditional hut was the 'kgosi's wife', 'mohumagadi', dressed in a German print, which some say is traditional wear.