Word: bamangwatos
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Strapping Gordon Batho, Her Majesty's district commissioner for the Bamangwato tribe of Bechuanaland Protectorate, had some bad news for his black-skinned charges. To a crowded Kgotla (native parliament) squatting in the tribe's mud-hut capital of Serowe, he announced that the Great White Queen would never allow Seretse Khama, their Oxford-educated chief, to return to his people (TIME, April 7). According to the Queen's ministers, Seretse, by marrying blonde London Typist Ruth Williams, had been derelict in his public duty as chief: his marriage, like Edward VIII's, had compromised...
...district commissioner proposed that the Bamangwato elect another chief. The tribal elders, wearing goatskins, zoot suits and flashy ties, told him to be quiet. They shook their fists and spat. Bamangwato virgins stormed the dais where Batho sat, and screamed: "We want our chief Seretse . . . May you die where you stand." Batho appealed for order and was shouted down: "Seretse should lead us . . . We cannot nominate anyone else to take his place. You have tried to rule us with a rod of iron. You treat us like ants. We won't have...
Back in 1948 Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief-designate of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, married a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. At first the tribal elders were outraged, but later, after tribal council, they accepted Seretse and his white wife. But not Uncle Tshekedi, who had acted as tribal regent during Seretse's minority. He asked the British High Commissioner for a judicial inquiry into Seretse's fitness to rule. The British found that Seretse, by marrying without consulting his tribe had, like Britain's own Edward VIII, failed in his public duty. They banished...
Last week it was the Tories' turn to propose a disreputable transaction. Receiving a demand from Bamangwato elders for the return of Seretse and his queen, the Churchill government abruptly announced that Seretse henceforth is forever barred from the chieftainship. As a sop to Seretse, they offered him a government job in Jamaica, but said it would not be kept open long (he refused...
...been 15 months since Tshekedi, prosperous cattle rancher and former tribal Regent, was kicked out of the Bamangwato Reserve in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, following into exile his nephew, handsome, Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwatos (TIME, March...