Tswana tribes had rainmakers, whose job was to use magic to make the rain come.

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Zibani Maundeni of the University of Botswana says that indigenous Tswana culture has helped.

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No one can afford not to have creative staff who speak Tswana and Xhosa, notes Sipho Luthuli, of Azaguys, an up-and-coming black agency.

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He learned the alphabet, upper and lower case, in two days, compiled his own spelling books, and set about reading the one book in the Tswana language, the Bible.

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Born in the sprawling black township of Soweto (next to Johannesburg), where his mother had grown up, Motsepe is a member of a royal clan within the Tswana tribe.

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The village assemblies exist among various African tribes including: the Ashanti of Ghana, the Igbo of Nigeria, the Somali, the Tswana of Botswana, the Shona of Zimbabwe, the Xhosa and the Zulu of South Africa.

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