The Jazz King (Part 12): "Tlhogo Ke Ea Kgosi"

Previously, we noted that during the 1920s Kgosi Sebele II’s exercise of authority over local European artisans and traders, was distorted into newspaper stories about the existence of "White Serfs" in Molepolole. Such press hysteria was ongoing when an attempt to enforce the local by-law against travelling by ox-wagon on a Sunday resulted in the following correspondence:

Letter by Kgosi Sebele II to

Captain Stigand, Resident

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