Word: bamangwato
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...return at last to his homeland. But to a hundred thousand Ba-mangwato tribesmen whose kraals spread over 40,000 sq. mi. of Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama, 34, was still the chief. Last week, as a charter aircraft flew Seretse back from six years' exile in Britain, the Bamangwato, with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown by the thousands. Many had trekked for days through the parched African bush to be there in time for his arrival. "Our chief is home again!" they screamed as the aircraft touched down and the returning exile emerged to greet...
Born. To Seretse Khama, 31, exiled chief-designate of the Bamangwato in Britain's African protectorate of Bechuanaland, and blonde Ruth Williams Khama 29: their second child, first son; in Chipstead, England. Name: Seretse...
...More Kgotla. It was the first time that the docile Bamangwato had thumbed their noses at a creature so Godlike as the Great White Queen's commissioner. Batho marched off, his upper lip aquiver. He issued an order: "No more Kgotlas." The Bamangwato sat back guzzling Kaffir beer (a native brew made of yeast, marmalade, syrup and raisins) and took no notice. But when Batho sent a platoon...
...marched into Serowe. Some had fixed bayonets, others heavy pick handles. Colonel Langley himself carried a sawed-off shotgun. This time the cops were rougher. They stormed into mud huts, boxed their occupants' ears, beat up all who resisted a search for beer and weapons. By nightfall, 41 Bamangwato, including four royal princes, were penned in a stockade near Batho...
...week's end, all was quiet. Serowe's native stores were forbidden to sell beer. Thousands of Bamangwato packed their blankets and cooking pots and trekked off across the thirsty veld to their remote cattle stations...