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ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustration 1. Robert Moffat, the first LMS missionary to visit the Bangwaketse royal town (1824), preaching to a Tswana local community.

Illustration 2. ‘Battles outside Shoshong’ as rendered by LMS missionary John Mackenzie (1883: 246).

Illustration 3. Regent of Bangwato, Kgosi Tshekedi (left) and Kgosi Bathoen II (right) of Bangwaketse

Illustration 4. The initiates arrive in the royal kgotla of the Bakgatla as the final stage of the bogwera in 1982.

Illustration 5. Kgosi Kgafela in ritual attire leading the ceremonial procession to his enthronement in the royal kgotla in Mochudi (2008) attended by thousands of Bakgatla from Botswana and South Africa.

Illustration 6. The Bangwaketse royal kgotla with the old office of the kgosi.

Illustration 7. The new office of the kgosi and his tribal administration; the building also includes a courtroom – meaning that the proceedings might take place indoors, which is an entirely new practice.

Illustration 8. Villagers encounter state officials in a village kgotla.