Talk:Sotho-Tswana peoples

message: Alistair, (1) there are at least four "black Bantu" linguistic groups in South Africa - can you guess the other two? (2) all this talk of "tribes" has to go - use your imagination! (3) get rid of stuff about "animists" and "ancestor worship" - you know the truth (4) the use of the past tense is worisome (5) obviously "sangomas" is inappropriate - you should know by now what the Sesotho is, yes? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 19:47, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, I didn't write this article! :) But yeah, there is a lot to be done. I'm guessing the other two are Venda and Tsonga? Obviously "tribes" is ridiculous. I didn't even see that. Actually I don't know why I'm writing a reply before getting to work.. I obviously agree with everything you've said. Isn't "black Bantu" tautology? Joziboy 18:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Done. Although I've made the traditional healer link to sangoma since there's no separate article on ngaka. Haha, I'd never watch Mr Bones - it looked horrendous in the trailer! Um, I don't know - I didn't think of Khoisan people as black. Sure races are completely contrived, but what terminology can be used to differentiate some cultures from others? "Bantu" has negative connotations in SA, "black" seems to annoy people, "African" doesn't clear anything up (I consider myself African), "Western" is incorrect (Australia's in the East), "developing" implies we're all aiming to be "developed" in a material sense... I see what you mean about labels on your homepage! Joziboy 21:35, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: I propose that this Sotho-Tswana page be merged with the very brief but useful page Sotho languages on Sotho and Tswana dialects/languages, by fleshing out this Sotho-Tswana page which has considerable information on it, but is very lacking on language stuff. I think the merger is good for  several reasons, including that fact that the "Sotho-Tswana" term is standard in referring to this subset of Zone S Bantu; and the principal fact that the two pages have an entirely overlapping domain (Sotho languages is a proper subset of Sotho-Tswana. — Sotho of the South 23:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest you propose renaming Sotho languages to Sotho-Tswana languages, (if that's what you think the correct name for the article should be), but keep the pages for the language and the people separate, in line with what is done for other languages/ethnic groups. The Sotho-Tswana people page should have a short summary of the language-group page. —Batamtig 18:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: Does anyone object if I move this article to Sotho-Tswana peoples which already exists as a redirect? According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dashes#Dashes: "for people and things identifying with multiple nationalities, use a hyphen when applied as an adjective". HelenOnline 13:06, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: HelenOnline 07:47, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed to move to [[Sotho-Tswana peoples]] 

message: In the first paragraph, "clasters" should be "clusters", yes?
Michael Hurwicz (talk) 01:16, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "clasters" should be "clusters" ? 

message: Please give me atleast five national principles in Botswana Teemane (talk) 18:47, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Botswana's national principles