Serowe
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Serowe (population approx. 90 000) was famed as Botswana's largest village. It was superseded in this by neighbouring Palapye around 2000.
Serowe is located in a fertile, well-watered area in Botswana's Central District and is a trade and commerce center. It lies west of the Gaborone–Francistown road, from which it is easily reached.
It has a memorial to Khama III, chief of the Bamangwato people in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1903 he founded as a new capital Serowe, Bamangwato.[1]It is also the birthplace of Seretse Khama, Botswana's first President.
Swaneng Hill School in Serowe was the first of the Brigades Movement schools founded by educationalist Patrick van Rensburg.
Swaneng hill is divided into three hillocks called Ba-Swaneng, Ma-Swaneng and Pa-Swaneng: Father, Mother and Baby Swaneng respectively.
[edit] Literature
Serowe was the adopted home of South African-born writer Bessie Head, inspiring her 1974 book Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind.
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