Ramotswa, Botswana
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Ramotswa is a village in Botswana, southwest of the capital of Gaborone. Population 20,000 (1999). It is the tribal capital of the BaLete, an ethnic minority springing from the Nguni tribe.
Ramotswa's main industry is a wheat flour mill. The village also manufactures metal products.
Kgosi Mosadi Seboko of Ramotswa is the first woman to serve as a paramount chief in Botswana. Seboko took on her role as a village leader and representative to the House of Chiefs after her brother Kgosi Seboko II died in 2000. Her presence in the house of chiefs was hailed as a victory for women's rights in southern Africa.
The nearby hamlet of Otse is the site for Moeding College, originally a colonial secondary school and a school for the disabled run by the Campbill Rankoromane Community educational center. Police XI, Botswana Premier League champions for 2006, are also based in Otse.
The climate is semi-arid, vegetation is a tree and shrub savanna. Only a fifth of the area is farmed but the density of cattle and goats and sheep is high.
Otse is overlooked by cliffs from which a colony of vultures are easily visible most days.
[edit] References
- "BOTSWANA: First female paramount chief welcomed" (Sep. 3, 2003). IRINnews. [1]
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