Our last instalment noted that the relative success of Basotho, as well as Batswana merafe against British and Boer arms, had temporarily raised hopes and
fears that a combination of Sotho-Tswana speaking “tribes with guns” might yet succeed in liberating the South African Highveld from white settler hegemony.
By the end of 1853 three blocks of indigenous African resistance had in fact begun to coalesce into a strategic triangle to at least check further settler expansion.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...