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Shweshwe is traditionally used to make dresses, skirts, aprons and wraparound clothing. Shweshwe clothing is traditionally worn by newly married Xhosa women, known as makoti, and married Sotho women. [9] [10] [16] [17] Xhosa women have also incorporated the fabric into their traditional ochre-coloured blanket clothing. [7] [18]
The Sotho-Tswana peoples are a meta-ethnicity of southern Africa and live predominantly in Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. List of clans and kingdoms [ edit ]
The Basotho have a unique traditional attire. This includes the mokorotlo, a conical hat with a decorated knob at the top that is worn differently for men and women. The Basotho blanket is often worn over the shoulders or waist and protects the wearer against the cold. Although many Sotho people wear westernized clothing, often traditional ...
It includes Tswana people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Tswana women" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Sotho-Tswana ethnic group derives its name from the people who belong to the various Sotho and Tswana clans that live in southern Africa. Historically, all members of the group were referred to as Sothos; the name is now exclusively applied to speakers of Southern Sotho who live mainly in Lesotho and the Free State province in South Africa, while Northern Sotho is reserved for Sotho ...
The other groups of people in South Africa are the Sotho-Tswana peoples (Tswana, Pedi, and Sotho), while the group of people in the north-eastern areas of present-day South Africa are Venda, Lemba, and Tsonga. [5] All of these groups of people, share the common home of South Africa, have for themselves distinctive languages and culture.
There were over 4 million Tswana speakers in the country in 2012, [2] with North West Province having a majority of 2,200,000 Tswana speakers. From 1948 to 1994, South African Tswana people were defined by the Apartheid regime to be citizens of Bophuthatswana , one of ten bantustans set up for the purpose of defending the policy of denying ...
Lobolo or lobola in Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Silozi, and northern and southern Ndebele (mahadi in Sesotho, mahari in Swahili, magadi in Sepedi, bogadi Setswana, lovola in Xitsonga, mamalo in Tshivenda, and roora in ChiShona), sometimes referred to as "bride wealth" [1] [2] [3] or "bride price" is a property in livestock or kind, which a prospective husband, or head of his family, undertakes to give ...