“Ketswa le motlhasedi Tlammeng [Matlamma=Tjiherero speakers], ke tswa go bona ka ditlhaba dilwela, banna bajana kaseputlela sa lerumo. Dikgomo tsa bokone magolonkwane; di gola maoto, dinaka ga digole, magolonkwane oo Rrakgaodi....Thamaga di diboll’a bola; dikgomo di ditshubaba Rramaomana, Rramaomana aMokube. Ke ile le motlhasedi Tlammeng, ngwana wa namane tse ditlhaba, mmusi, tse ditlhaba tsa motse wa Matlamma; re diraetse molamu wa tshukudu, re re tlhaba di khubame ka mangole, di lebe go ene, moabi a Khuto. Ke goreetseng kare o moabi? Nkabo ke rile motlhasedi, nkabo ke rile motlhasela-batho.”
Another apparent legacy of Sebego’s short residence in Ghanzi was the introduction of the ivory trading and large scale commercial hunting into the region. There can at least be no doubt that his mephato’s communal hunting practices, e.g. encircling game over a wide area, were of an altogether different scale and nature to the traditional, environmentally sustainable, practices of the local Khoe.
