Kgafela de-recognition: A response to Bayford

To digress a little, the Native Advisory Council up until 1965, itself a creation of the colonial government, had succeeded more than three quarter way towards writing an obituary of the feudal institution in what was to become the nation of Botswana in 1966.

To be precise, the Bechuanaland Protectorate local personnel (indirect rule henchmen) were not entirely composed of dikgosi, but rather of some dikgosi and mostly the educated functionaries from among the commoners. Not even Bayford as a Chief/King in those times of "Sekalaba" would have loved to sit and make policy and govern the polity with "commoners", - not at kgotla with the King safely in front of the horse-shoe and on the throne, but as equals around the table in the Native Advisory Council? Feudalism was not in a recovering sickroom, but it was on its death-bed having been given the last rights. It is called feudalism, "comrade" - feudalism if you still can relate to the age old masterpiece, historical materialism.