Batawana chief to be buried tomorrow
Friday, December 05, 2008
Moremi died last week at the Letsholathebe II Memorial Hospital. An official of the Batawana Tribal Administration said Moremi will be buried at the royal cemetery at the main Maun Kgotla after a memorial at the Methodist Church. Chiefs from all over the country are expected to attend the burial. Moremi, who was born in 1941 in Maun, went for his primary school education in South Africa.
He came back to Botswana to attend secondary school at St Joseph's College. He also studied in England and the former Rhodesia.
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