Since then, the push for modernisation and change first made evident in Kanye in 2002, has been inexorable.
There, it had been apparently agreed that Kgosi Bathoen’s 1914 office in the middle of the kgotla should be demolished and be replaced by a new, tribal administration building which was probably four times its size. The decision would have destroyed the historical kgotla and involved the dispersion of the Ngwaketse royals who had been laid to rest there in unmarked graves.