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Leetile Disang Raditladi

Died in 1971

Leetile Disang Raditladi was born in 1910 in Serowe and studied at Tiger Kloof, Lovedale and Fort Hare. An employee of the colonial administration, he became the most senior Motswana in the protectorate and, in 1944, the first to head a public service, in charge of the fight against the tsetse fly in Ngamiland. A poet and author of narratives in Setswana, he founded a political party in 1958 and organised football in the country. He died in 1971.

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