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Tswana
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Motswana
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Batswana
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Setswana
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Botswana
The Tswana (Tswana: Batswana, singular Motswana) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa. Ethnic Tswana made up approximately 85% of the population of Botswana in 2011.[1]
Batswana are the native people of south and eastern Botswana and the Gauteng, North West, Northern Cape, Free State, and other provinces of South Africa, where the majority of Batswana are located.[5]
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northern Mpumalanga. The Pedi people are part of the Bantu ethnic group. Their common ancestors, along with the Sotho and Tswana, migrated from East Africa...
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people native to Southern Africa living mostly near the South African-Zimbabwean border. The Venda language arose from interactions with Sotho-Tswana...
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the Northern Sotho language and is grammatically similar to other Sotho–Tswana languages. Mutual intelligibility between certain Venda dialects and the...
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"homeland" and later a second-tier authority in South West Africa for the Tswanapeople during the apartheid period. DTA – Democratic Turnhalle Alliance Namibia...
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