fight for slave girls. JOHANNESBURG. April 12. As the result of the investigation . into the recent trouble at Serowe, Bechunnaland, when three brothers named Ratshosa fired on Tshekedi, the Regent of the Baniangwato tribe, and nearly caused a civil war, two of the brothers arc to undergo a trial on a charge of attempted murder, and the third has been “ forgiven,” as he did banished from, Serowe. ' At the inquiry Simon, one of the brothers committed for trial, alleged that . slavery was still practised by Tshekedi’s tribe and that the quarrel | which led to the shooting was about _• two Masanva slave girls. Tshekedi denies the allegations of slavery. He says the Masanva are not bought and sold and that they receive food and-clothes from their masters. Some own livestock, he added, and, although they are a subject tribe, the Masarwa arc quite happy,
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1926, Page 3
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