The wonderful Minnie Shaw

There is Sekgoma’s extraordinary house with its two octagonal rooms. Also in Serowe is the multi-sided living room in Tshekedi’s Red House, and there is the ruined hexagonal house in Francistown. 

Until the floods in Palapye apparently destroyed it, and other buildings of historical importance, there was also Minnie Shaw’s fascinating home which may have had striking similarities with Sekgoma’s hill side house.  Almost certainly Mma Shaw’s home also consisted of two multi sided rooms which are just visible in this 1974 photo. It is possible, I suppose, that the one might have provided the inspiration for the other, although it is a very long shot.