A Zezuru Husband Has Many Roles And Wives

FRANCISTOWN: It is not everyday that people get to know how the white-clad Mapostoli, popularly called Ba-Zezuru, do their things, even though they have lived among Batswana since time immemorial.

All that we ever see are men with clean-shaven heads and goatees and women dressed in white. And the fact that they go around selling hand crafted merchandise and seemingly, anything they can lay their hands on.

However, it was after a furore arose in the early 2000s when some of them refused to immunise their children against polio and the government had to force them to do so, that most Batswana seemed to sit up and take notice.

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