Sotho-Tswana heritage
Tswana clan names & Direto
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Tswana clans
17 clans
- B Bafokeng Tswana · Bafokeng (singular Mofokeng) means "people of the dew." They are a Sotho-Tswana people whose main community, the Royal Bafokeng Nation, is centred on Phokeng near Rustenburg… View clan
- B Bagananwa Tswana · Bagananwa (Gananwa, Ganawa) is the older spelling of the name now usually written Bahananwa, the people of Blouberg whose chief Leboho was besieged in 1894. We… View clan
- B Bahananwa Tswana · The Bahananwa (Hananwa) are a people of the Blouberg in Limpopo. In 1894 the South African Republic besieged their chief Leboho for three months, and he… View clan
- B Bahurutshe Tswana · The Bahurutshe are one of the principal Tswana tribes. Their cultural capital, Kaditshwene, in the Marico hills north-east of Zeerust, was a large iron-working and trading… View clan
- B Bakgalagadi Tswana · The Bakgalagadi (Kgalagadi people) are a Sotho-Tswana people of the central Kalahari in Botswana, said to have migrated from the Transvaal in the 17th century. They… View clan
- B Bakgatla Tswana · Bakgatla are a Sotho-Tswana people whose totem (seboko) is the kgabo - the vervet monkey. The largest branch, the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela, is unusual in having its royal… View clan
- B Bakubung Tswana · The Bakubung ba Ratheo are a Tswana community near Rustenburg and the Pilanesberg, said to have come from the Ventersdorp area, with a community of about… View clan
- B Bakwena Tswana · Bakwena (also Bakoena, Bakoni) means "people of the crocodile." It is one of the largest and oldest Sotho-Tswana clan groups, and many other well-known groups -… View clan
- B Balete Tswana · The Balete (Bamalete) are a people of south-eastern Botswana, with the king's seat at Ramotswa and a community at Lekgophung in North West. Wikipedia lists their… View clan
- B Bangwaketse Tswana · The Bangwaketse are one of the eight principal Tswana tribes of Botswana, with their capital at Kanye. Under Moleta and Makaba II in the late eighteenth… View clan
- B Bangwato Tswana · The Bangwato (Bamangwato) are one of the eight principal Tswana tribes of Botswana, described as an eighteenth-century offshoot of the Bakwena. Their capital is Serowe, and… View clan
- B Bapo ba Mogale Tswana · The Bapo ba Mogale are a Tswana chiefdom of the Magaliesberg whose chief Mogale gave his name to Mogale City and the Magaliesberg. Mzilikazi's forces overwhelmed… View clan
- B Basia Tswana · The Basia (Mosia) are the people of the Wild Cat, remembered as the people of Mmanthatisi, the Batlokwa regent, daughter of the Basia chief Mothaha, who… View clan
- B Batawana Tswana · The Batawana are a Tswana people of north-western Botswana, said to take their name from Tawana, who left his father's people and settled about 1790 near… View clan
- B Batlhaping Tswana · The Batlhaping are a Tswana people of the Northern Cape and North West who broke away from the Barolong. Their capital Dithakong, near Kuruman, was visited… View clan
- B Batlharo Tswana · The Batlharo are a Tswana people living mainly around Kuruman in the Northern Cape. Their kgosi Toto Makgolokwe was a leader in the Langeberg rebellion of… View clan
- B Borolong Tswana · Barolong (singular Morolong) are a Setswana-speaking people of the western Highveld, straddling the South Africa-Botswana border around Mahikeng, Ganyesa, Thaba Nchu and Lotlhakane. They are remembered… View clan
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