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The Tswana people of Botswana saw the constellation as Dithutlwa, two giraffes-Acrux and Mimosa forming a male, and Gacrux and Delta Crucis forming the female.
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Tswana and people
Northwest of the Vaal River developed early Tswana states centered around towns of thousands of people.
The first certain historical fact concerning Barotseland is in the early 19th century the trek of the Makololo, a clan of the South-African Basotho or Tswana people.
Two ( Ciskei and Transkei ) were for the Xhosa people ; and one each for the Tswana people ( Bophuthatswana ) and for the Venda people ( Venda Republic ).
Bophuthatswana ( meaning gathering of the Tswana people ), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana ( Tswana: Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana ; Afrikaans: Republiek van Bophuthatswana ) was a Bantustan — an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity – and nominal parliamentary democracy in the northwestern region of South Africa.
The majority of the inhabitants appear to have been members of the Tswana people ( also spelled Bechuana ), but in the valleys of the Orange and Vaal were Koranbas and other Khoekhoes, and in the Drakensberg and on the western border lived numbers of Bushmen.
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The Tswana (, singular Motswana ) are a Southern African people.
The modern republic of Botswana ( formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland ) is named for the Tswana people.
The largest number of ethnic Tswana people actually live in South Africa.
Until 1994, South African Tswana people were notionally citizens of Bophuthatswana, one of the few bantustans that actually became reality as planned by the Apartheid regime.
Most notably the Tswana people.
Sebitwane gathered the Kololo tribe somewhere near modern Lesotho and wandered north across what is now Botswana, plundering and killing many of the Tswana people in the way.
Category: South African Tswana people
Tswana and Sotho people harvested the salt by filtering and decoction between 1200 and 1800.
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Category: South African Tswana people
Category: South African Tswana people
* The Sotho – Tswana people, a group of southern African ethnic groups with a common history, speakers of languages in the Sotho group.
85. 6 % of the people in the urban area speak Tswana as their first language, while 7. 3 % speak Afrikaans, 3. 5 % speak Sotho and 1. 7 % speak Xhosa.
There are more Sotho, Tswana and Swazi people living in South Africa than in the bordering nation states of Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland respectively.
The Tswana people of Botswana knew Canopus as Naka.
Tswana and Botswana
The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group ( called the " Tswana " in South Africa ).
Ethnic Tswana make up about 80 % of the population of Botswana.
In the Tswana language, however, Botswana is the name for the country of the Tswana.
Tswana is also the name of some breeds of animal originating in Botswana.
In Botswana, the officially used term is Basarwa, where it is partially acceptable to some Bushmen groups, although Basarwa, a Tswana label derived from Twa, also has negative connotations.
In Botswana, most speakers are bilingual in Naro or Tswana.
It is learned locally as a second language in Namibia, but the language is being lost in Botswana as speakers shift to Tswana, under threat of deportation if they do not speak that language.
** of each of the eight major tribes of the Tswana, all in Botswana ( former Bechuanaland )
Badimo ( Tswana badimo, literally " ancestors ") is a name for the indigenous African Traditional Religion of Botswana.
Tswana and two
The marathon included the first two black Africans to compete in the Olympics: two Tswana tribesmen named Len Tau ( real name: Len Taunyane ) and Yamasani ( real name: Jan Mashiani ).
* The first Africans take part in the Olympics: two Tswana tribesmen who are involved with a Boer War exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis run in the marathon
The Tswana dynasties are all related, and some have known splits into two or three competing lines.
The Tswana were pillaged by two large invasionary forces set on the move by the Mfecane.
Bechuanaland meant the country of the Tswana and for administrative purposes was divided into two political entities.
Bechuanaland meant the country of the Tswana and for administrative purposes was divided into two political entities.
Tswana and Delta
The Okavango Delta has been under the political control of the Batawana ( a Tswana sub-tribe ) since the late 18th century.
Tswana and .
He produced phonetic / phonolological treatments which were masterly for their time on the sound systems of Cantonese, Tswana ( Sechuana as its was then known ), Sinhalese, and Russian.
The development of Sotho – Tswana states based on the highveld, south of the Limpopo River, began around 1000 CE.
Derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning " the great thirst ", or Khalagari, Kgalagadi or Kalagare, meaning " a waterless place ", the Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water.
The Bantu-speaking Tswana, Kgalagadi, and Herero and a small number of European settlers also live in the Kalahari desert.
The principal groups are the Ovambo, Kavango, Herero / Himba, Damara, mixed race ( Coloured and Rehoboth Baster ), White Namibians ( Afrikaner, German, and Portuguese ), Nama, Caprivian ( Lozi ), Bushmen ( San ), and Tswana.
Lucas Mangope, former chief of the Motsweda Ba hurutshe-Boo-Manyane tribe of the Tswana, ex-president of the former bantustan of Bophuthatswana, was the leader of the United Christian Democratic Party.
The Transvaal region was inhabited by the Khoisan for thousands of years, and by iron-age ancestors of modern Bantu-language speaking South Africans, such as the Sotho, Swati, Tswana, Pedi, Venda and Transvaal-Ndebele peoples since the mid 4th century AD.
Much less common are labiodental affricates, such as in German and Izi, or velar affricates, such as in Tswana ( written kg ) or High Alemannic Swiss German dialects.
While he grew up speaking the Tswana language, Plaatje would become a polyglot.
Fluent in at least seven languages, he worked as a court interpreter during the Siege of Mafikeng, and translated works of William Shakespeare into Tswana.
Tshekedi opposed the marriage on the grounds that under Tswana custom a chief could not marry simply as he pleased.
Lucas Mangope, former chief of the Motsweda Ba hurutshe-Boo-Manyane tribe of the Tswana and head of Bophuthatswana is president of the United Christian Democratic Party.
The Tswana language belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger – Congo languages.
Europeans therefore referred to the area inhabited by the Tswana as Bechuanaland.
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