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19th April 2021 While he would later execute a master stroke and wriggle free, the Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, had at first struggled to tame a very simple question: are dikgosi (traditional leaders) equal before the law? The answer is just as simple (No) but well aware of how it would sound, Autlwetse used far too many words to avoid such directness. The original 1966 constitution created a tribal caste system that recognised only eight (but not all) Tswana tribes. Dikgosi from those tribes became ex-officio members of the House of Chiefs – renamed Ntlo ya Dikgosi. A motion tabled by Oliphant Mfa, who was MP of what was then called Sebina-Gweta constituency, led to the repeal of sections of the constitution – Sections 77, 78 and 79 – that created such caste. As a direct result of such repeal,

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