Basarwa declare 'war'

According to Keikabile Mogodu, executive director of Khwendom council, a resolution to unite in the fight for the emancipation of the oldest indigenous groupings of Botswana was taken at December 2013 meeting of six advocacy groups representing the various Basarwa communities.

The groupings have resolved to speaking with one voice to address common grievances of landlessness, poor quality education as a result of a policy that doesn’t recognise the use of mother-tongue language in schools, the invisibility of members of their tribes in government institutions, including in districts where the communities are in the majority as well as issues informing their constant legal tussles with government over relocations and access to water.