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The BaKhurutshe Anglicans of Tonota religious persecution in the Bechuanaland Protectorate

Bennett, B.S.; Bolaane, M.M. (African Studies Center, Boston University, NaN, 2010)

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Abstract:	The article is about the inter-war history of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, in which it was alleged that Tshekedi Khama, regent of the BaNgwato (1925-1949), was persecuting a small group of people for practicing Anglicanism, thus violating the official monopoly of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.).
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10311/747

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Limitations of British territorial control in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1918–1953

Makgala, C.J. (Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, NaN, 2010)

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This article argues that the Kalahari desert region of the Kwena tribal reserve quietly slipped out of the imperial command from 1930–1950, at a time when British colonial authorities achieved territorial control of the tribal areas of Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana)through the chiefs. The British had reluctantly colonised Bechuanaland and initially left the chiefs to their own devices. However, with a new generation of chiefs in office in the 1920s, numerous ‘ugly’ developments in the tribal areas, and lack of regulation of chiefly powers, forced the colonial government to tighten control. By the mid-1940s this appeared to have been achieved in most parts of the country. But the lack of resources and logistical difficulties, combined with weak tribal leadership at the Kwena tribal headquarters made the Kalahari desert impossible to police. Hence, it became a safe haven for alleged criminal elements, such as tax evaders and game poachers for example. The remote and isolated village of Tsetseng proved to be a particular problem for the colonial authorities and this ‘lawless’ area was only brought back into effective imperial control in 1953 after a difficult campaign. The article also argues that consultation and Tswana succession through primogeniture made indirect rule in Bechuanaland operate differently from other parts of British Africa.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10311/998

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Ngwato atitudes towards Zimbabwean immigrants in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in the 1950s

Makgala, Christian John (Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com, NaN, 2006)

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Abstract:	This article is a modest sketch of the historical background to the phenomenon of xenophobia, with which policymakers in Botswana are grappling in the early twenty-first century. It is not, however, a historical treatise on xenophobia. Furthermore, it is acknowledged that scholarship on xenophobia is recent, being a post-liberation development in Southern Africa.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10311/510

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