Sentence examples for Tswana from inspiring English sources

Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was the home of seminomadic Bantu-speaking peoples such as the Tswana.

Two of the most famous 19th-century Scottish missionaries to Southern Africa, Robert Moffat and David Livingstone, worked among the Tswana.

On the margins of Namibia i.e., the Caprivi Strip in the far east and on the margins of the Kalahari the local peoples and groupings were spillovers from southern Zambia (Barotse) and Botswana (Tswana).

He has been singing opera ever since and is one of the Three Tswana Tenors.

Others say that the predominant Tswana people, who did not arrive in Botswana until the 15th century, are embarrassed by their paler-skinned countrymen.

Languages (1) The following languages, namely Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda and Xhosa, are the official languages of Zimbabwe.

By the 1800s the extension of the firearms frontier was disrupting the Orange River valley and intensifying conflict between the Sotho-Tswana chiefdoms beyond.

The neighbouring Sotho-Tswana communities were also early sites of missionary activity.

Dr. Hayes said Archbishop Tutu was selected because of his keen interest in medicine and because his parents come from the two largest Bantu groups in South Africa, the Sotho-Tswana and the Nguni.

He was fired by the knowledge that Xhosas shared with Zulus, Sothos, Tswanas, the San and the Khoisan people, Ndebeles, Shonas, Barotses, Hereroes and all other African tribes a common history of struggle and heroism against colonialism.

The nearest to it was probably Botswana, which is four-fifths Tswana and turned out to be peaceful and prosperous, suggesting to some that countries populated and run by a single big tribe have a better chance of stability than those with a hotch-potch of smaller ones.Somalia, however, became a byword for conflict, poverty and ungovernability.