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Molepolole \u2014 Bakwena tribesmen, led by Kgosi Kgari Sechele III, will on September 18 converge at the Kgotla in Molepolole for a night vigil to mark the beginning of the declaration of Letsema.<\/p>\n
Early Saturday morning, the men will travel to a sacred location chosen by Kgosi Kgari III, where he will officially declare the start of the ploughing season.<\/p>\n
For many Batswana tribes, Letsema referred to as go bolotsa letsema in Setswana signals the official start of the ploughimg season and rallies all…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Molepolole \u2014 Bakwena tribesmen, led by Kgosi Kgari Sechele III, will on September 18 converge at the Kgotla in Molepolole for a night vigil to mark the beginning of the declaration of Letsema. Early Saturday morning, the men will travel to a sacred location chosen by Kgosi Kgari III, where he will officially declare the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,21820,4718,2462,55476,257,254,28197,10367],"class_list":["post-244913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bakwena","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-letsema","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tradition","tag-uphold"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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