OLD NALEDI: "O ne a le ko ditakaneng kwa Ian maabane. Ba re o ne a pantsola. Hei, mothaka yo o o maswe. O hitlhetse BNF e agile mosasananyana ko ditakaneng, a tsena a e ragela kwa. (He was at Old Naledi yesterday Ian. I hear he was dancing freestyle. Hey, that man is bad news. The BNF had built a little hovel in that ghetto which he smashed to smithereens.)" said a combi driver on Gaborone's Broadhurst Route 2 on Sunday.
In 1820, the Zulus under King Shaka sought to destroy the Ndwadwe's under King Zwide. Zwide, an ambitious king, had built a formidable force, killing and pillaging his way across the south east of now modern South Africa. Both Zwide and Shaka had ambitions to expand their borders and extend their empires. They met in what is now known as the Battle of the Mhlatuze River. In that war, it is said, the major undoing of the Ndwadwes was crossing the river towards the Zulu army, which attacked when the Ndwadwe were midstream. Shaka decimated King Zwides men and proceeded to the capital of the Ndwadwe Kingdom.
