Surname · Setswana
Tshwene (Bahurutshe / Batshweneng)
A seboko of the Batswana, recorded in Setswana, which the sources also call Tswana.
Setswana
- PeopleBatswana
- Seboko tshwene — The baboon totem; the founding totem was phofu/phofhu
- Merafe recorded Bahurutshe boo-Manyana; Bahurutshe boo-Gopane; Bahurutshe boo-Khiba; Bahurutshe of the Marico/Zeerust district; Bahurutshe within Bangwaketse
- Places recorded Western Transvaal, Marico, North West, South Africa, Manyana, Southern District, Central District, Botswana
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- L. D. Ngcongco, Origins of the Tswana, 1979 — https://pdfproc.lib.msu.edu/?file=%2FDMC%2FAfrican+Journals%2Fpdfs%2FPULA%2Fpula001002%2Fpula001002003.pdf
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