Sekai prepares to consult Rasesa people in February

The people of Rasesa Village west of Mochudi welcomed the New Year in a high mood, aware that the battle for the leadership of their village is imminent. Some camped at Kgope lands watching traditional choirs battling it out. Others turned the two bars which are separated by the old A1 Road which runs in the centre of the village into a hive of activity an hour before fireworks exploded to signify the arrival of the New Year as scores of holiday-makers waited for the hour to strike.  It is not the leadership in the political sense which awaits the Rasesa people. That one is due in October when the country stages general elections. The eminent one is for the traditional leadership which has been moving back and forth due to legal impediments. Rasesa was established in 1910 by a break-away group from Bokaa.

The people going by the name Rasesa have since been in charge until as recently as 2011 when Kgosi Kgafela II with his deputy Sekai Linchwe and others launched an investigation into the correctness of the bogosi of that village. The outcome of their investigations was that for close to hundred years or so, the leadership had been in wrong hands. The outcome favoured another group whose surname is Buisanyang.  It was the outcome of that investigation that gave Sekai the ammunition and courage to recommend one Kagiso Buisanyang for the position of headman of record which would ultimately make him the village’s either chief representative or headman. He would be the man in charge of the village having ousted the Rasesa family from the position they occupied for so many years.  Sekai’s previous visits to Rasesa have been marred in controversy. In one incident, the ousted headman, Letshwenyo Rasesa refused to receive when he had gone to deliver a letter appointing Kagiso Buisanyang. In another, he was booed as a large number of residents walked out of the kgotla leaving him addressing a small section. They waited outside the kgotla singing anti Sekai songs.