"It's a raw deal," Basarwa in Makgaba speak out

Instead of Makgaba, the Basarwa who live there call the place 'Xhoitshaa' in their Sesarwa language and it means "metsi a phatsimang" in Setswana, which translates, to shining water.Conversation in this community of 581, according to the 2011 population census, is in Sesarwa language only. They speak Setswana only when talking to visitors.

I could only perceive "The Monitor" in the clicks and clacks as I was being introduced around and one of them would volunteer to say that they were saying I am a journalist from The Monitor newspaper.There is a simmering discontent among the residents of this settlement towards the government and central to their issue is that they want their settlement to be declared a village so that they too can enjoy the benefits of such an arrangement.