Motlhabaneng is a village in

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on the north bank of the

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near the borders with

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and

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. It is on the south-western boundary of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve. The village is in the

Bobirwa Bobirwa Subdistrict is a jurisdiction in Botswana. It is populated by the Babirwa (Ba-Birwa) people who came from Transvaal in present-day South Africa. History Before Moshoeshoe and his Basotho nation of Lesotho, Basotho people were there. ...

region. When the Thune Dam is completed, it will bring water to the village. The village, along with the nearby villages of Lentswe le Moriti and Mathathane and the tour operator Tuli Wilderness Trails, helps operate Molema Bush Camp in the

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. There are rock paintings on the outskirts of the village that depict

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s, hunting scenes and

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s. These were almost certainly made by the

San people The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are members of various Khoe, Tuu, or Kxʼa-speaking indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures that are the first cultures of Southern Africa, and whose territories span Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, ...

, the original inhabitants of the area.

References

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