Tswana trade with Cape Colony-based merchants opens…

1852 CE to 1863 CE

Tswana trade with Cape Colony-based merchants opens up during the 1840s and 1850s and enables the Batswana chiefdoms to rebuild.

The Bakwena, Bangwaketse, Bangwato and Batawana cooperate to control the lucrative ivory trade,  then used the proceeds to import horses and guns, which in turn enable them to establish control over what is now Botswana.

This process will be largely complete by 1880, and thus the Bushmen, the Kalanga, the Bakgalagadi, and other current minorities will be subjugated by the Batswana.

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San (Bushmen) View → Tswana people View → Mangwato tribe View → Koena tribe View → Kololo people View → Kalanga people View → Bangwaketse View → Northern Ndebele people View →

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