Palapye is not a Ngwato village
An article entitled "Focus on Palapye; The rise and rise of Palapye" in the latest edition of The Voice newspaper has touched a raw nerve. It is yet another of the myriad writings, some by "prominent historians" which seek to potray the Bangwato as some sort of super-tribe. The supressed truth is that Bangwato were a small insignificant tribe until the British arrived, gave them guns, and unleashed them on other African tribes. The rest is "history", a doctored version of history of course! If you follow true history however, the one that necessarily starts at Mapungubwe, you will understand that Bangwato originate from Balete boo Seleka (Balindi baka Chiliga), and that they got their totem - phuti, meaning the duiker, not from their Chief Khama iii being saved by a duiker as so-called historians tell us, but from the gods themselves. I have written extensively to explain how the gods assigned totems, therefore I will not dwell on it here. The name ...