Hurutshe

such as the Rolong, Tlhaping, Hurutshe, and Ngwaketse. For self-defense some of these African communities formed larger groupings who competed against each other in their quest to control trade routes going south to the Cape and east to present-day Mozambique.

…and even the Kwena and Hurutshe in the west were strong enough to avoid being conscripted as labor and thus limited the labor supply.