Jovial Bakwena celebrate Dithubaruba Festival in style

The Annual Dithubaruba Cultural Festival was celebrated at the Kgosi Sechele I Museum in Molepolole amid great pomp on Saturday.

The fourth cultural event opened with a publicity walk that was led by an ox-drawn wagon from the Main Kgotla to the museum with a jovial and swaying crowd of Bakwena in traditional attire and holding various Setswana household objects.

In a morning of cultural revival, as the festival aims at bringing back the Bakwena tradition, a string of cultural activities from poetry, dance, dress, food, tangible cultural objects were offered.

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