Mo Motswasele II, terama ya ntlha e e ikaegileng ka ditiragalo tsa hisetori e kwadilwe ke Motswana, e e phasaladitsweng ke Bantu (moragonyana African) Treasury Series ya University of the Witwatersrand Press, ka 1945, Leetile Disang Raditladi o sekaseka bogosi le gore maikarabelo a kgosi ke eng ka baanelwa ba babedi ba ba maatla, Moruakgomo le Motswasele. Go ya ka hisetori ya Bakwena, bobedi joo e ne e le baba ba lwela bogosi.
Raditladi o kgala mokgwa wa puso wa ga Motswasele, yo o busang ka letsogo la tshipi, a itseela dikgomo tsa batho ba gagwe mme lefoko la gagwe e le la bofelo. Motswasele o itikagantse ka batho ba ba sa tshepagaleng e bile ba sa itse sepe ka boeteledipele kgotsa sepe se se tsamaelanang le bogosi. Moruakgomo, ka fa go je lengwe, o tlhagelela e le moetapele yo o pelo, wa segatlhamelamasisi, yo o botlhale, yo o ponelopele e bile a kgona go reetsa fa a gakololwa.
Mo terameng, Raditladi o lemosa kgosi go se kgopise batho ba e tlaa tsogang e ba tlhoka kamoso, le go se letle dikoma tse a di iteelwang go mo ya tlhogong le go mo tlatsa maikgogomoso. Motswasele II e fatlhosa babuisi ka ga botlhokwa jwa setheo sa bogosi, le tlhokego ya kgosi go busa ka botlhale le go rarabolola dikgotlang fa di runya.
About the author
Tuelo Gabonewe is a writer, editor, and translator currently based in Johannesburg. He is the author of two novels, Planet Savage (2011) and Sarcophagus (2016). He was one of the founder members in 2013 of Jalada Africa, a Pan African Writers’ Collective.