This morning we were up and out early to head south to Ghanzi – and back – to interview Kgosi Tsaxlae Xao, a specially elected chief in the House of Chiefs and headman of record in Grootlagte. We were very lucky to find her in Ghanzi. It was a very moving interview; for her the challenges of life are as much about being a Mosarwa, or San, as they are about being a woman and a woman chief.On our family trips to and from Gaborone and Windhoek we have always seen the turnoff to Ghanzi but never been there. It is a small town, the administrative capital of Ghanzi District and ‘capital’ of the Kalahari; Afrikaners arrived in 1870 and they seem to dominate still today.
Are her challenges from being a Mosarwa borne from politics and power play within the state itself or from sources outside of the country?
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