Bakgatla Bag P400, 000 In TV Rights

Monday, June 22, 2009

Bakgatla have been paid P400, 000 upfront as part of the broadcast rights for the Bojale initiation ceremony Botswana Television and RB 1 broadcast over the weekend, their paramount chief has announced.

Kgosi Kgafela II says his intention to commercialise Bakgatla culture is paying handsome dividends. Speaking in Mochudi over the weekend, he also announced that he has already registered a Bakgatla ba Kgafela royal communications company to spearhead the commercialisation of Bakgatla culture through, films/documentaries and books, among other things.

Kgafela described the P400, 000 he has received as television rights as just "an installment", and said more money would soon come into Bakgatla coffers.

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