dikgosana
English edit
Noun edit
dikgosana
- plural of kgosana
- 1990, Jack Parson, Succession to High Office in Botswana: Three Case Studies, →ISBN, page 8:
- He employed and sheltered behind Amandebele bodyguards and consumed the cattle of dikgosana and batlhanka headmen as state property vested in the royal person, rather than as mafisa ("feudal") cattle held in trust by the royals and headmen.
- 2008, Fred Morton, Jeff Ramsay, Part Themba Mgadla, Historical Dictionary of Botswana, →ISBN, page 326:
- In 1906, in the wake of a triangular power struggle among the Kgosi, dikgosana, and commoners, the British helped the dikgosana gain ascendancy in the morafe by deposing Sekgoma and installing Mathiba Moremi.
- 2013, Ørnulf Gulbrandsen, The State And The Social, →ISBN:
- This means that if the rulers lacked the measures to ensure the dikgosana's support, immigration might well have aggravated rivalry for the bogosi.