Serowe


Serowe

(sĕrō`wā), town (1989 est. pop. 90,000), E central Botswana. Located in a fertile, well-watered area, it is a trade and commerce center. There is a memorial to Khama IIIKhama III
, d. 1923?, chief of the Ngwato people of Bechuanaland (now Botswana) from 1875 until his death; grandfather of Sir Seretse Khama. To counter threats from neighboring Africans and from the Boers (Afrikaners) of S Africa, he and other chiefs arranged (1885) for Great
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, chief of the Ngwato in the late 19th and early 20th cent.

Serowe

 

a city in Botswana, in southern Africa. Population, 43,200 (1971). Serowe is the trade center for a cattle-breeding and irrigated farming region.