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Before European arrival in what is now South Africa (1600s-1700s) Indigenous groups such as Barolong, Batlhaping, Bakgat...
23/07/2026

Before European arrival in what is now South Africa (1600s-1700s)

Indigenous groups such as Barolong, Batlhaping, Bakgatla, Bafokeng, Bakwena, Bangwaketse and others saw themselves as independent polities(chiefdoms), each with its own lineage, history, totem, and dialect.

They shared related languages and cultural systems, but did not collectively identify as "Batswana". Their unity was more linguistic and cultural (they spoke mutually intelligible dialects of what we now call "Setswana". So originally, Tswana was not an ethnic identity but more of a linguistic descriptor.

When European explorers, missionaries, and administrators began documenting southern Africa in the 18th-19th centuries, they were confronted with a complex mosaic of African societies. The British and Boers observers began using umbrella terms for convenience like "Bechuana" to describe people living west of the Vaal river who spoke dialects of one linguistic family.

The London Missionary School referred to all groups collectively as "Bechuana tribes". Colonial administrators followed suit, especially in Bechuanaland (modern Botswana) and the Cape colony northern frontier.

Thus by the mid 1800s, European had already started lumping distinct groups under single ethnonym: Tswana/Bechuana"

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