For people who find it hard to believe that the Mapungubwe mesa was as civilised a society as any today, consider its name - Po. In Kalanga, "Po" literally means "At the place".
The Kalanga verb KU LISA means TO GUARD. A guard is "nlisi". The guards at Mapungubwe were therefore the first PO-LISI; now better known in English as the Police. No wonder a great majority of nations find nothing wrong with using the universal name -Police; Polisi; Policia; Polizei etc.
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