"One day [at school] we were in a queue, and we were asked a question. ‘O mo kae?’ If you said ‘I am a Motswana,’ you were asked to step to one side. If you said ‘I am a Moyeyi,’ you were asked to step to another side. Then all of us who had said we were Bayeyi were beaten up."
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Gilson Saleshando
Gilson Shaleshando is was a motswana politician and a former President of the Botswana Congress Party.
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