Instead, impositions have been made without consulting them, from the early missionaries, to farm schools and the colonial government and since 1966, all assuming that they knew what was best for the San.
Independence saw the creation of "One Botswana, one monolithic nation". It was very simple, he said, Botswana translates to Setswana. One Motswana: all Batswana -to achieve national unity. It negated all other communities in Botswana, from the Kalanga to the 16 San languages.