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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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seats Current seats 38 7 Seats needed 24
Leader Dumelang Saleshando Mephato Reatile Party BCP BPF Leader's seat Maun West Jwaneng-Mabutsane Last election...
- July 2019 – 13 July 2023
Preceded by
Position established Succeeded by
Mephato Reatile Member of
Parliament for Tati West In
office 28
October 2014 –...
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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...
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Botswana Patriotic Front Leader Mephato Reatile Chairperson Oboetswe Gabotlale General Secretary Tshekedi Khama Founded July 2019 Split from Botswana...
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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 represented in the
National ****embly of
Botswana since 2019 by
Mephato Reatile a
Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) MP and
current leader of the BPF...
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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...
- Ethnology. 15 (4): 101–108. ISSN 0379-8860. Morton, Fred (2011). "Bogwera and
Mephato".
Botswana Notes and Records. 43: 38–51. ISSN 0525-5090. JSTOR 23237955...
- Centre-left
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...
