Goo-Sekgweng: where hope springs eternal

GOO-SEKGWENG: Goo-Sekgweng is in the Tswapong North constituency and is one of the five villages that make up Goo-Tau Ward, the others being Goo-Tau proper, Mokungwana, Matlhakola and Manaledi.

Situated to the south of the long range of the awe-inspiring Tswapong Hills, Goo-Sekgweng is home to approximately 1000 inhabitants whose main source of livelihood is subsistence farming. Indeed, the community is spiritually connected to the hills that stretch eastwards from Lecheng to Lerala. Fervently religious, the people believe that the hills are the abode of their ancestral spirits to whom they look for rain, a good harvest, health, spiritual cleansing and protection from all manner of affliction and misfortune.
According to Kgosi Ontibile Ramatakana of Goosekgweng, the people of this village are the descendents of Mapulane, a Mopedi from the Transvaal. Mapulane and his followers settled at Manaledi and then Moremi.