Batswapong history published

SELEBI-PHIKWE: The Batswapong now have their history published in a book titled Ngwao le Ditso tsa Batswapong, fulfilling a long-time ambition by author Galesite Baruti of Tumasera village.

The 376 paged book that is written in Setswana language with traces of Setswapong tails, traces the history from as far back as 200 AD when only the Bantu tribe existed only later to give birth to Batswapong tribe among others.

Bantu themselves, according to the book, originated from Cameroon and the present Democratic Republic of Congo but migrated across Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers enroute to Transvaal whereupon they divided into smaller clans of Basotho-Tswana, Nguni, Shona and others. Batswapong were born from this division of clans.

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