The Making Of A Young Radical

Our previous episode traced the Rev. Dr. David Livingstone’s radical, albeit then anonymous condemnation of Boer oppression of Batswana in the pages of the British Banner newspaper to his 1848 journey into the central Transvaal.

Among the atrocities he witnessed during the expedition was a Boer commando attack on the relatively prosperous Bakwena bagaMoletse, who had broken away from the Bakwena bagaKgabo of Botswana about a century earlier.

The pretext for the attack was an incident when some Boers had killed an elephant in the BagaMoletse territory. A crowd had surrounded the hunting party to demand a tusk and half of the meat as sehuba for their Kgosi, resulting in the Boers running off unharmed.

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