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Tswana people
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ethnic group in South Africa and Botswana
Key facts
- Botswana
- c. 2,000,000
- South africa
- 5,000,000 ( Setswana-speakers )
- Namibia
- 10,967 (2023 Census)
- Zimbabwe
- c. 97,500
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- Instance of
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- Country
- Zimbabwe
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- Tswana Dancers 3.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
The Batswana (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.
Batswana inhabit south and eastern Botswana and the North West, Northern Cape, Gauteng, Free State, and other provinces of South Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tswana people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.