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The three South African provinces with the most speakers are Gauteng (circa 11%), Northern Cape, and North West (over 70%). Until 1994, South African Tswana people were notionally citizens of Bophuthatswana, one of the bantustans of the apartheid regime. The Setswana language in the Northwest Province has variations in which it is spoken ...
According to the 2007 community survey 90.8% of the province's population was Black (mostly Tswana-speaking), 7.2% as White (mostly Afrikaans speaking), 1.6% as Coloured and 0.4% as Asian. The 2007 community survey showed the province had a population of just over 3 million. The province's white population is very unevenly distributed.
The Union of South Africa was established in 1910 by combining four British colonies: Cape Colony; Natal Colony; Transvaal Colony; Orange River Colony.The last two were, before the Second Boer War, independent republics known as the South African Republic and the Orange Free State.
The Sotho-Tswana ethnic group derives its name from the people who belong to the various Sotho and Tswana clans that live in southern Africa. Historically, all members of the group were referred to as Sothos; the name is now exclusively applied to speakers of Southern Sotho who live mainly in Lesotho and the Free State province in South Africa, while Northern Sotho is reserved for Sotho ...
South Africa,Limpopo Phuthi Duiker Baroka Sesotho sa Lebowa South Africa, Limpopo Tlou Elephant Bakwena Ba Ma-Thebe (also known as Bantwane or Bantoane) Setswana South Africa Kwena, Tholo, Kgabo Crocodile Bammangwato, Barolong, Bakgatla, Musane-Dikwena, Mmusane Kotu Banogeng Setswana South Africa Noga Snake North West, Mahikeng, Matile
The British South Africa Company had no more than 750 troops in the British South Africa Company's Police, with an undetermined number of possible colonial volunteers and an additional 700 Tswana (Bechuana) allies who marched on Bulawayo from the south commandeered by Khama III, the most influential of the Batswana chiefs, and a staunch ally of ...
South Africa's official opposition, the Democratic Alliance, believes that the districts add an unnecessary fourth layer of government (between provinces and municipalities) and has called for them to be eliminated. [7]
Bophuthatswana (/ ˌ b oʊ p uː t ə t ˈ s w ɑː n ə /, lit. ' gathering of the Tswana people '), [4] officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana; Afrikaans: Republiek van Bophuthatswana), and colloquially referred to as the Bop and by outsiders as Jigsawland (In reference to its enclave-ridden borders) [5] was a Bantustan (also known as "Homeland", an ...