Tribal Territories Must Go (TTMG)

The Reptilians may have accentuated tribal differences among the Kalanga people that they converted from Kalanga to Sotho speakers, but the most significantly divisive operation on the Kalanga nation was carried out by the British colonialists who ASSIGNED TRIBAL TERRITORIES TO SUCH TRIBAL ENTITIES.

Before you “remind” me of my previous claims that the British wanted us to remain a UNITARY possession of Great Britain, let me explain that the UNION that the British wanted us to maintain is something akin to the African Union (AU) today. It was a union to facilitate their (British) administration of our lands, but nothing of any benefit to the “united” people themselves.

And so the drawing up of Tribal Territory boundaries in our country was a divisive master stroke by the British. They assigned disproportionately large tracts of land to Tswana-speaking components of Kalanga tribes, the idea being to invert and subvert the political power relationships existent in the Kalanga nation at the time. Only Tswana speaking tribes were allocated territories. There was no way the Kalanga nation could resist such manoeuvres from British military might; and so we ended up with a territorially warped Republic when we signed up for “independence” from the British ON THEIR TERMS. We should have insisted that the Tribal Territory boundaries be removed, and the country left in the state that the British found it in.

The Tribal Territories are the main cause of most of the problems we face at national level today. The ruling cliques within these territories now consider it their entitlement to also rule the Republic. As a result they lazily lie around, allowing their children not to pursue education, because of this perceived entitlement to privileged lives. They have created a Republican government based on these senseless territories; declaring themselves Paramount Chiefs of supposedly “major” tribes, when in fact and in truth their subjects are only PARTS of such tribes, with the rest of their tribes being lumped and dumped together as the “minor” Kalanga “tribe”. The national allocation of development resources is tailored to these senseless Tribal Territories. While the country adopted a sensible law that natural resources such as minerals belong to the whole republic irrespective of where they are mined, the reality is that the distribution of the resources so acquired, is a warped exercise where the Tribal Territory ruling cliques, who have become the Republic’s ruling oligarchs, buy popularity among their tribes by disproportionately allocating development resources to their Tribal territories. For how else would you explain that the only two universities in the country are built within 260 Km of each other on a main road stretching more than 1000 Km from Ramatlabama to Kasane? How else would you explain that national District boundaries coincide with tribal territory boundaries, thereby forcing the national development budget to be allocated according to Tribal territories?

Some people may argue that the Tribal territories are the guarantors of poor peoples’ right to own land. I accept that argument with a qualification – poor peoples’ right to access land. For if the Government has the power to sell tribal land, what poor peoples’ ownership of land is there to speak of? No; Tribal territory boundaries should be scrapped, the land should become state land, and the land boards should be elected officials in the DISTRICTS (not Tribal territories) where they reside. District boundaries should not necessarily coincide with current tribal boundaries.