Govt Confirms Nationality Of Basarwa Group

The government has established that the Basarwa who relocated from Gudigwa to Seshokora settlement are citizens of Botswana. North West District Commissioner (DC) Bernadette Malala told Monitor last week that a team of senior officials tasked with investigating the nationalities of the Gudigwa Basarwa has found that they are not Namibians as originally thought.

 As a result, they will be re-issued with identity cards that were confiscated on suspicion that they were Namibians. She said the government team that investigated the issue, sat down with four elderly people in the group to get the history of the tribe. "That is when we discovered that indeed they were Batswana. Additional support to their statements was their ruins that were found at Tsidzi settlement, a place close to Seshokora," said Malala. Seshokora settlement is 10km south of the Namibian border. The Gudigwa Basarwa belong to BaBokakhwe tribe.

Malala explained that before the Botswana-Namibia boundary was set, the BaBokakhwe used to cross to Namibia in search of jobs and other means of survival.

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