Dimawe: A heritage waste

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‘Rramokonopi wabo Kgosidintsi o tlhotse a konopana le Poulwe, erile motshegare Poulwe a lapa, ga sala go konopa Rramokonopi’

This is the opening stanza of a praise poem by Dikokwe of Matlhalerwa ward in Molepolole about Kgosi Sechele I, transcribed by Isaac Schapera.

It describes the events of August 30, 1852 when the Transvaal Boers attacked Bakwena at Dimawe. If ‘Rramokonopi’ had stopped shooting that afternoon and surrendered to the fiery Boers, historians agree that Botswana would be nonexistent.

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