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End the GammaNgwato chieftainship spats

For the longest time, there has been no peace in Serowe, where the GammaNgwato acting regent, Serogola Seretse and the uncles to Kgosi Ian Khama have been trading barbed wires.

The chieftainship spats between Seretse and Khama’s uncles have purely degenerated into a permanent elephant in the room and it does not seem anyone cares to ensure this hurdle is dealt with promptly for the attainment of peace for GammaNgwato’s bogosi.

Just as the proverbial, when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers aptly suggests, and so is the state of the institution of bogosi in GammaNgwato.

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