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Khama retained the
mephato regiments as a
source of free
labor for a
variety of
economic and
religious purposes. The
scope of a
mephato's work responsibilities...
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acting chief of the
Bamangwato is best
remembered for his
expansion of the
mephato (regiments) to
build primary schools,
grain silos, and
water reticulation...
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Botswana Patriotic Front Leader Mephato Reatile Chairperson Oboetswe Gabotlale General Secretary Tshekedi Khama Founded July 2019 Split from Botswana...
- 37.22% 20.99%
Swing 1.34pp new
Third party Fourth party BPF
Leader Mephato Reatile Mokgweetsi Masisi Party BPF BDP Leader's seat Jwaneng-Mabutsane...
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following decades. With
these came the
development of the
mophato (plural
mephato), a
militia regiment organised by age group,
among the
eastern Tswana peoples...
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Dumelang Saleshando 14.57 11 / 57 7 / 57 BPF
Botswana Patriotic Front Populism Pro-Ian
Khama Big tent
Mephato Reatile 4.41 3 / 57 4 / 57
Vacancies 2 / 57...
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seats 20.99%, 15
seats Current seats 36 15 Seats needed 16 BPF
Leader Mephato Reatile Mokgweetsi Masisi (Outgoing)
Party BPF BDP Leader's seat None None...
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every five years,
socialized youths into
groups of
cohorts or
regiments (
mephato)
bearing the leader's name,
whose members then
maintained lifelong loyalty...
- Modubule,
Nehemiah M.
Lobatse Botswana Movement for
Democracy Reatile,
Mephato R.
Ngwaketse West
Botswana Democratic Party Mmolotsi,
Wynter Francistown...
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cannot "visit" an
initiation school when it is in session. The
names of
Mephato ya
Badika are Matuba, Mangana, Magakwa, Madingwane, Mankwe, Maakwa, Madisha...
