Mathangwane Hits Centenary Mark

Mathangwane village headman of arbitration, Batisani Moeti says that to prepare for the celebrations, they are consulting with stakeholders, historians and village elders before going public with the details.

The Tonota North village falls under the greater Francistown region and is an ethnic melting pot of Kalangas, Tswana speakers, Zezurus and the Ndebele of Zimbabwe. The Bakalanga are in the majority. A small section of the population is still engaged in agriculture. In the 1980s, a number of accidents on the bridge across the Shashe river that links the village to Francistown gave rise to spooky stories. The tales started after a white man perished in a night accident on the bridge. This was followed by more night accidents on the bridge. One tale has it that the accidents were caused by a ghost on the bridge. The ghost used to appear as a donkey and those trying to avoid it more often than not perished in fatal accidents.