Mabolwe is a village in the Central District of Botswana that is located in the eastern tip of the country's border with Zimbabwe.
[2] The primary inhabitants of Mabolwe are the Bobirwa people who were nomadic before permanently settling in their present settlements.
The Bobirwa people originated in Nareng, which lies in the south of Bolobedi in Letswalo country around Phalaborwa.
Sekoba's group, led by his son Madikwe, settled at Majweng Hills in the present-day northeastern Bobonong.
In 1906, Khama III sent his son-in-law Modisaotsile Mokomane as a chief representative to gather the Bobirwa people and place them in one village.
In 1919, Khama sent Modisaotsile to remove Malema's people from the Tuli Block to make way for the British South Africa Company's white settlers.
Khama ceded the area of Tuli Block in 1895 to the British government, who had passed it to the BSA Company.
Malema filed a case in a court of law demanding his ancestral land back and claiming $40,000 in damages.
He was represented by a Mafikeng-based lawyer named Glucksman, whom Malema promised 1,000 heads of cattle as payment if he won.
Khama III died before the issue was settled, but his son Sekgoma II was installed as a kgosi, who admitted that his father acted harshly.
Mabolwe people, like other Bobirwa, speak Sebirwa, a language from the Bantu family with around 10,000 speakers in Botswana and South Africa.