Tutume

The village is a district headquarters and has a population of 23,000 .It is made up of wards: Sitabule(Madikwe),Tjilagwani(Selolwane), Thini and Madandume (Magapatona).

The main kgotla is located in Madikwe ward near Tutume Central Primary School.

Tutume village is the administration centre for all the villages and settlements in the District area.The village has a police station, a primary hospital,a District hospital currently being constructed,immigration department, a District Council,Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board, Water Utilities Corporation, Botswana Power Corporation, civil registration department, rural administration centre (local council), post office etc.

The village acts as an umbrella for different BaKalanga clans who all belong to the Wumbe tribe.Before Tutume being developed people lived at their lands and cattleposts for the fertile virgin-land.

People prided themselves in the art of ploughing and animal rearing, despite baboons ransacking the fields and kidnapping lambs in the night.