LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND BELIEFS OF THE TSWANA PEOPLE Bophuthatswana, the region that made up the various parts of the former homeland, as well as nearby regions of the North-West Province and the Northern Cape, are home to a large population of Tswana. Tswana people can also be found in ...
A survey of notable events and people in the history of Botswana to the present day. Botswana is a landlocked country in the center of Southern Africa. The country is named after its dominant ethnic group, the Tswana (“Bechuana” in older variant orthog
This article provides information on the people and history of Botswana. The Tswana, the country's major ethnic group, settled the area from South Africa during the Zulu wars of the early 1800s. The British colonized the area in the 19th century. The democratic self-government in Botswana ...
History of Eswatini, a survey of the notable events and people in the history of Eswatini from prehistoric times to the present day. The country’s official name is the Kingdom of Eswatini (siSwati: Umbuso weSwatini). In the colonial era, as a protectora
Bot swana means "place of Tswana" in the dominant national language ( Set swana), and the citizenry are called Bat swana, or Tswana people. The term Batswana, however, bears a double meaning. In government rhetoric, it refers to all citizens of Botswana. But the word also refers to ethni...
4,300,000 people live in the eastern rim of the country along the railroad corridor connecting Zimbabwe with South Africa. In the 1800s, before protective status was conferred over the Tswana tribes and the railroad corridor created, the largest and most important towns were located in the ...
The Venda people’s history dates back to the 9th century during the time of King Shiriyadenga. They migrated across the Limpopo River from the Congo and East Africa rift. The Venda share ancestry with other tribes such as the Kalanga people, Lobedu people, Shona people, and Sotho-Tswana....
About half the country today is ethnic Tswana. The term for the country's people, Batswana, refers to national rather than ethnic origin. Encroachment by the Zulu in the 1820s and by Boers from Transvaal in the 1870s and 1880s threatened the peace of the region. In 1885, Britain ...
Sindebele is a click language of the Nguni group of Bantu languages; other members of this language group are Zulu and Xhosa, which are spoken mainly in South Africa; siSwati (Swaziland); and siTswana (Botswana). Other languages spoken in Zimbabwe are Tonga, Shangaan, and Venda, which are...
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