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    The Tswana (Tswana: Batswana, singular Motswana) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa. Ethnic Tswana made up approximately 85% of the population...
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    The Sotho-Tswana, also known as the Sotho or Basotho, although the term is now closely associated with the Southern Sotho peoples are a meta-ethnicity...
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    Tswana, also known by its native name Setswana, and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in and indigenous to Southern Africa...
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  • Seiphemo Tuks Senganga Earl Sweatshirt (American rapper whose father is Tswana) Boity Thulo Redi Tlhabi Emma Wareus Sports David Bright Itumeleng Khune...
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    Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to Southern Africa. They primarily inhabit the regions of Lesotho and South Africa. The ancestors of the Sotho people are...
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  • part of the larger group of Bakgatla people, which is one of sub-divisions of the Bantu-speaking Tswana peoples. These different groups are often classified...
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  • Look up Tswana or tswana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tswana may refer to: Tswana people, the Bantu speaking people in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia...
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    Traditional Tswana music is performed by Tswana people during feasts and special occasions such as beer gatherings, weddings and initiation ceremonies...
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  • Bakgalagadi, are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to Botswana. They are a section of the Batswana people. The name "Bakgalagadi" means "people of the Kalahari"...
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    part of the Xhosa people. After years of oppression by the Xhosas, they later formed an alliance with the Cape Colony. Southern Tswana populations had experienced...
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  • Tswana people, an ethnic group in southern Africa A citizen of Botswana of any ethnic background Tswana language Batswana (singular Motswana), Tswana...
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    northern Mpumalanga. The Pedi people are part of the Bantu ethnic group. Their common ancestors, along with the Sotho and Tswana, migrated from East Africa...
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  • The Sotho-Tswana peoples are a meta-ethnicity of southern Africa and live predominantly in Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho....
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    with the ethnic Tswana being the largest followed by other ethnicities who speak Setswana as a secondary language. The ethnic Tswana populace are concentrated...
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  • The Sotho-Tswana languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa. The Sotho-Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label...
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  • the Northern Sotho language and is grammatically similar to other Sotho–Tswana languages. Mutual intelligibility between certain Venda dialects and the...
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    (Sotho-Tswana literally meaning "ancestors") is the name for the traditional African practice of ancestor veneration for the Sotho-Tswana people of Botswana...
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  • himself into an anthill to confuse his enemy and escape. Like most Sotho-Tswana groups, MaPulana believe in Badimo (ancestors). When they perform their...
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    Tshepo Motsepe (category South African Tswana people)
    Tshepo Motsepe (born 17 June 1953) is a South African physician and businesswoman. She is the First Lady of South Africa, as the wife of Cyril Ramaphosa...
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    traditional religion of the Sotho-Tswana people. Modimo and all its derivatives ultimately stem from the proto-Sotho-Tswana prefix *mo- which indicates personhood...
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  • San people, and agriculture first developed approximately 2,300 years ago. The first Bantu peoples arrived c. 200 CE, and the first Tswana people arrived...
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    Len Taunyane (category Tswana people)
    participate in the modern Olympic Games. Taunyane was a member of the Tswana people and a veteran of the Second Boer War, having served as a despatch runner...
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    Shona Ferguson (category Tswana people)
    Aaron Arthur Ferguson (30 April 1974 – 30 July 2021), professionally known as Shona Ferguson, was a Motswana actor based in South Africa, executive producer...
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  • Frances Baard (category South African Tswana people)
    Goitsemang Baard OMSS OLG (1 October 1909 – 1997) was a South African (ethnic Tswana) trade unionist, organiser for the African National Congress Women's League...
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    European descent. Genetic studies of the 21st century have shown these people also had Tswana, San, and Xhosa ancestry. Later, the Europeans chose mixed-race...
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    Thaba 'Nchu (category Sotho-Tswana peoples in South Africa)
    17 km east of Botshabelo. The population is largely made up of Tswana and Sotho people. The town was settled in December 1833 and officially established...
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    Connie Ferguson (category Tswana people)
    Constance Ferguson (née Masilo; born 10 June 1970) is a South African based Motswana actress, filmmaker, producer and businesswoman. She is best known...
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    people native to Southern Africa living mostly near the South African-Zimbabwean border. The Venda language arose from interactions with Sotho-Tswana...
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    population of 120,776. It comprised an area occupied by the three main Tswana peoples: the Bamangwato, the Bakwena and the Bangwaketse, together with a number...
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    Tswanaland (category Tswana people)
    be a self-governing homeland for the Tswana people. Tswanaland was established as a homeland for Tswana people in South West Africa. However, unlike...
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