Word: bamangwato
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Liberal leader Clement Davies rose last week in the House of Commons and said: "I beg to move that this House deplores the decision to continue the banishment of Tshekedi Khama from the Bamangwato Territory . . . and calls upon His Majesty's Government to rescind the order and allow him to dwell freely within the territory of his tribe...
Born. To Chief Seretse Khama, 28, tribal ruler of the Bamangwato in the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Africa, ordered by the British into a five-year exile for marrying a white woman in 1948, and his Queen, Ruth Khama, 26, former London stenographer: their first child, a girl; in Serowe, Bechuanaland. Name: Jacqueline. Weight...
After three months, Oxford-bred Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwato, was finally allowed by the British to return to his homeland for a five-day reunion with his white wife, former London Typist Ruth Williams, who is expecting a baby in June. As crowds of Bamangwato shouted happily and grizzled tribal elders cried pula, pula (welcome, welcome), Ruth, sobbing and laughing, ran over the rough sand into her husband's arms...
With South Africa's rabid racist Prime Minister Daniel Malan ready to seize on any excuse to step into Bechuanaland, which borders his country on the north, Britain's ministers seemed far more willing to heed his wishes than those of the Bamangwato. This week in Serowe, 35 Bamangwato elders refused to go to a special Kgotla meeting called by Britain's High Commissioner Sir Evelyn Baring to inform the Bamangwato of the government's decision. "We cannot," they said, "attend any tribal meeting in the absence of our true chief Seretse...
...timid efforts to propitiate Malan, His Majesty's government seemed to be sacrificing both the Bamangwato and its own principles...