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Tradition Bogwera and bojale are important ceremonies in most tribes in Botswana. It is where children are taught the roles and responsibilities of being an adult. Most tribes have stopped these ceremonies often influenced by churches. There is a tradition where married men and women are named after their first-born children, thus Kgosi Kgafela II is called Raagwe Matshego meaning “father of Matshego” after his first born son, his wife will be known Mmaagwe Matshego, meaning ‘mother of Matshego.” A sotho-Tswana chief or king must hunt and kill his own leopard. The skin of the leopard he has hunted becomes his royal robes, which he wears to public meetings and ceremonies In Sotho-Tswana the throwing of the bones always precedes ritiuals of great significance, the bones are called ditaola, from the word laola, which means to foretell or control.(pg 18) Kgotla close to the chief’s residence is a large court, formed by a circle of rushes or boughs. This is the general place of resort for the men. Here public affairs are discussed, lawsuits decidedand criminal causes judged: it is also a place of halt for strangers, and news may be had there from distant countries

Mzilikazi

The arrival of Mzilikazi in 1823 arrived in the Transvaal changed the manner in which war was conducted. When early in the winter of 1823 Mzilikazi crossed the Drakensberg into Sotho-Tswana country, he chanced to move northwards into the Ermelo district of the Transvaal. the Bapedi under Thulare were the first to be subjugated and their land depopulated Using military tactics learned from Shaka, Mzilikazi was able to subordinate most of the Sotho-Tswana clans east of the Madikwe(Marico River)by 1831 and had establishes his capital at Mosega. While a handful of communities on his western and southern borders continued to holdout Mzilikazi had by the time subjucated or depopulated most Sotho-Tswana clans in the north of the Transvaal. With many of their young men now being inducted into the Matebele regiments, as young women were taken as Matebele wives and concubines, the very future of the Sotho-Tswana heartland was in real peril. In 1836-37 the regional balance of power was further altered with the arrivals of the