Long walk to Bakalanga freedom

Before the country attained its independence, back in 1930s a conflict arose between the Bakalanga ba-ka-Nswazwi and the Bangwato over tax payments that the latter had instructed the former to pay.

The conflict between the two tribes lasted for years and the Bakalanga, under the leadership of She (Kgosi) John Madawu Nswazwi, were banished to Rhodesia in 1946 by the colonial government after numerous vitriolic encounters with then Bangwato regent Tshekedi Khama.