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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 ...
There are 3 types of Basotho, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Tswana people The British and the Boers ( Dutch descendants ) divided Sotho land amongst themselves in the late 19th century. Lesotho was created by the settlers in the 1869 Convention of Aliwal North following the conflict over land with Moshoeshoe I , the king of the Southern Sothos.
The largest number of ethnic Tswana people is located in modern-day South Africa. ... Batswana wear a cotton fabric known in Setswana as Leteisi and Sotho as Shweshwe ...
The Sotho-Tswana peoples are a meta-ethnicity of southern Africa and live predominantly in Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. List of clans and kingdoms. Clan
Tswana people (1 C, 54 P) Pages in category "Sotho-Tswana people" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K.
Badimo (Sotho-Tswana literally meaning "ancestors") is the name for the traditional African practice of ancestor veneration for the Sotho-Tswana people of Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa. Although most Sotho-Tswana people are Christians, [ 1 ] in reality a great majority of them follow at least some of the traditions deemed Badimo even if ...
Northern Sotho can be subdivided into Highveld-Sotho, which consists of comparatively recent immigrants mostly from the west and southwest parts of South Africa, and Lowveld-Sotho, which consists of a combination of immigrants from the north of South Africa and Sotho inhabitants of longer standing. Like other Sotho-Tswana people, their ...
Sotho-Tswana people (2 C, 6 P) T. Tswana (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Sotho-Tswana peoples in South Africa" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.