Ngwaketse, plural noun

/(ə)ŋɡwaˈke(ː)tse//əŋwaˈke(ː)tse/
Forms:
Bangoaketse, BangwaketseShow more Also Bangoaketse, Bangwaketse, Bangwaketze.
Origin:
(plural baNgwaketse).
The members of a people of the Tswana group. Also attributive. See also Tswana sense 2 a.
Note:
As is the case with many names of peoples and groups in South African English, this word has been found only in plural uses; however, it may be that it has also been used in unrecorded singular forms.
[1822 Missionary Notices 29 Sept. 214One of these visitors having frequently travelled amongst the Manketsens, Boschuanas, and Marootzes, to the north and north-east of Griqua Town, gave us much more information respecting that country.]
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. 51The Bakwains, the Bangwaketze, and the Bamangwato all fled thither; and the Matabele marauders, who came from the well-watered east, perished by hundreds in their attempts to follow them.
1871 J. Mackenzie Ten Yrs N. of Orange River 102The Bangwaketse were once a large and powerful tribe, and they still number perhaps six or seven thousand people.
1930 S.T. Plaatje Mhudi (1975) 86The Matabele were evidently meditating a raid of a similar nature upon the Bangwaketse...Mzilikazi’s army swooped down upon the evacuated city like so many vultures thirsting for Ngwaketse blood.
1941 C.W. De Kiewiet Hist. of S. Afr. 73On the western border of the Transvaal..dwelt the Bamangwato, the Bakwena, the Bangwaketse, the Baralong, and the Batlapin.
1951 Afr. Drum Apr. 12Other tribes began to spring up in the country either by breaking away from the older and larger tribes or by coming into the sheltered safety of Basutoland from the troubled world outside. Thus the..Bangoaketse, Bahlatoana and the Makhoakhoa came about.
1973 J. Meintjes Voortrekkers 70At the same time he (sc. Mzilikazi) nearly exterminated the tribes of the Bakwena, Bangwaketse, Bahurutsi and Barolong.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 45In the eighteenth century two new important Tswana chiefdoms were founded after breaking away from the Kwena. First the Ngwaketse broke away.
The members of a people of the Tswana group. Also attributive.
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