Hundred years since Seretse Khama's birth

 This post is of no interest to non-Botswana citizens.

And so the Bangwato are hunkering down in their Covid bunkers and hoping that the anomaly of Seretse Khama's place of birth as officially reported by them, and the fact that his father was not living in Serowe at the time of his birth, will simply GO AWAY. Well, let us probe the matter further.

It is recorded and not in dispute that Seretse Khama's father, Sekgoma Khama was unable to come to Serowe, the capital of the Bamangwato Tribal Territory, before he reconciled with his father, Chief Khama iii in 1922. And yet his son, Seretse Khama was born in 1921, purpotedly in Serowe. Tomorrow is his birthday centenary celebration IN SEROWE! So the question is: where was Seretse Khama born, and why are Bangwato fibbing about it; or is it really a fib, as opposed to a cold calculated lie? Unravelling this, you just may begin to understand, among other things, how the events of the last general election (2019) were a mere replay of the events surrounding Seretse Khama's birth one Covid cycle ago (1918-1921).

If Sekgoma Khama had been unable to come to Serowe, but permitted to live elsewhere in the Bamangwato Tribal Territory, there would have been a banning order issued by his father, restricting him to ONLY that part of Bamangwato Tribal Territory, and explicitly excluding Serowe. Such an order would have been enforced with the full knowledge of the  Colonial British government. There is no record of any such order having been issued. From this we can safely conclude that Sekgoma Khama did not live in the Bamangwato Tribal Territory during the spat/fallout with his father Chief Khama iii. We know for a fact that when he did go to Serowe in 1922, he was accompanied by his wife, Lenkeme. An Internet search for "the story of Seretse Khama's mother" will bring up a write up by one Gasebalwe Seretse in answer to Morgan Moseki's claims. The write up reveals who Lenkeme was. When Bangwato rejected Sekgoma Khama's marriage to Lenkeme, she was given to one Nkhukhu to "take her back to her people". Nkhukhu lived adjacent to one Hubona Nshakazhogwe. Hubona lived in what was considered by the British Government, to be part of the North East District, although it is physically, on the right side of the Shashe river's direction of flow, just as the Bamangwato Tribal Territory is. In other words, the North East District straddled both sides of the Shashe river in this area. There was even a British semi military camp on the same right bank of the Shashe river as the Bamangwato Tribal Territory, yet this camp was NOT in the Bamangwato Tribal Territory, but in the North East District. In fact the camp was set up to demarcate the land on which Hubona Nshakazhogwe lived. And so, just outside this land in the North East District, and as a neighbour to Hubona, lived Nkhukhu. There is a high probability therefore that Nkhukhu took Lenkeme to this part of the North East District, and that both Lenkeme and Sekgoma Khama lived in this part of the North East District, during the fallout between the latter and his father Chief Khama iii.

Yes, the fallout! Was it any more real than the current one, a hundred years later between Seretse Khama's son, Ian Khama and current Botswana president Mokgweetsi Masisi? I don't think so. A hundred years ago the "fallout" was faked in pursuit of a long term goal - the theft of that part of the North East District and its incorporation into Bamangwato Tribal Territory. I call it theft because there is no record of that area having been subsequently legally incorporated into the Bamangwato Tribal Territory, and yet today the Ngwato Land board has allocated it and continues to allocate it as though it is Bamangwato Tribal land. The fake "fallout" between father and son was merely a means towards an end. The current fake "fallout" which pits the great grandson, also grand son to the two protagonists of a hundred years ago, against the current president of Botswana has, as its goal, the total annihilation of the Botswana National Front (BNF) political party, and the retention of governing power by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) ad infinitum!