Domboshaba

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  Cultural heritage

Domboshaba is an open site of more than 8 hectares. On the hilltop there are dry stone walls which form private enclosures. Most of these stone walls have an average height of 1.8 metres. The stone wall structures are mostly free standing with a few platforms which mainly form part of the entrances. There are 15 visible dakha floors representing the presence of huts. The site has been revered by local people and has been protected by local taboos until the advent of colonialism, from that point onwards there was a lot of treasure hunting, the site was excavated by treasure hunters and archaeologists.

The milling stone was used to grind food-stuffs such as tobacco and groundnuts.

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  The grinding stone used at the heritage site for grinding tobacco and ground nuts

• Domboshaba in Pictures
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  Stone at the monument
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  entrance of Domboshaba Monument(Gate house)
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  Domboshaba
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  Trees at Domboshaba
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  Trees at Domboshaba
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  Welcome to Domboshaba (Khami type site)
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  caverns at the site
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  Trees at the site
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  Stone walls
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  Stone walls
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  The grinding stone (used for grinding tobacco)
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  Pathway designed by people who were staying there in the past.
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  Domboshaba hill
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The Domboshaba gate house was constructed and opened by the Kalakamati Community through the Ipelegeng programme (Self reliance) in collaboration with the department of national museum and monuments.[3]

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  Domboshaba gate house
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  entrance of Domboshaba Monument(Gate house)

The dry stone walling is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. The hill top was the resident of the chief, his religious advisor and closer attendants. The hilltop has six stone wall enclosures while the lower part has one main enclosure divided into several enclosures where the chief's wives and family lived.[4]

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  Domboshaba stone walls
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  Domboshaba Stones

There are remains of several dakha floors found at the Domboshaba monument made of soil mixed with cow dung spread across the monument. The older dakha house floors were exposed by amateur archaeologists and soil erosion over time. These floors were made with soils that have high ratio of clay to gravel. It is believed that the house floors were fired to strengthen them for longer periods.

Domboshaba monument hosts an annual festival event at the heritage site every year.[5] The event comprises distinguished guests from different backgrounds to come and witness the culture and tradition of Kalanga people. This event is respected and sponsored by the Botswana tourism organisation to openly create awareness about the event and the monument site, this will also be the time to share Kalanga tradition experience and have a taste of the different traditional foods ranging from Delele, Nyembah, Topii, Morogo wa dinawa, Zengwe, Lebelebele and others. Domboshaba cultural festival does not only attract the audience from the Botswana and Zimbabwe, rather the events done there exposes the culture of Kalanga people.[6]

• cultural festival
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  Dihosana dance troupe at the Domboshaba cultural festival 2017
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  Chimone Kalanga meal
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  Dihosana_Dance_troupe_7 during the cultural festival in 2017
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  Folk_dance_troupe during the cultural festival 2017
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  Hosanas_in_front_of_a_thatched_traditional_house_at_Domboshaba_cultural_festival
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  Kalanga_man_axing_goat_meat_at_the_Domboshaba_cultural_festival_2017
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  Kalanga_woman_steering_chimonye_meal_(Kalanga)_at_Domboshaba_cultural_festival