Linchwe's Death Inspires Cultural Revival

It was singing and dancing at the Kgotla by several men holding sticks decorated with ostrich feathers. They call the dancing sticks merokolo while the dancers and singers are part of Bakgatla traditional regiment - mephato. Some carried guns decorated with ostrich feathers while others danced with diditse. Some singers wore animal skins. The singers were led by three elderly men. Some blew horns and pipes to produce a unique sweet melody that merged well with the songs.

The men in the vociferous choir have all gone through the famous Bakgatla initiation schools, bogwera and bojale. On this day, they sang bogwera songs or dikoma to bid farewell to their leader.