“Throughout Tshekedi’s long career, he had looked towards the time when he would transfer the chieftainship to his nephew Seretse; he attended so carefully to the details of Seretse’s interests that he shopped personally in Johannesburg for Seretse’s bridles saying only the best were suitable for the next chief.” Wylie, Pg179, 1990.
It is interesting that what has been made available for public consumption in the mainstream has been that Tshekedi, in one sense or the other hated Seretse with all intensity and wanted to remain as chief by hook or crook. Of course Tshekedi was a no nonsense leader regardless of whom he was faced with, including the British colonial masters, especially the notorious Colonel Charles Rey.
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