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motshelo en · NOUN
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(Botswana) A communal fund to which each member contributes an agreed-upon amount, which is then given periodically to a rotating member of the group.
Men naturally are people who do not have many events to celebrate in a year as compared to their female counterparts who have kitchen top ups, baby showers, metshelo (fund-raising clubs), among others.
2012, Kutlwano, page 15:Also include are different forms of motshelo (pooling and mutual support), mahodisano (draw-wages clubs), and stokvels (fund-raising through food and drink sales).
2002, Botswana Notes and Records, volume 34, page 93:If same were voluntary, why don’t they just open a motshelo account, tell the poor cops and soldiers the account number and we see what they get at the end of it all.
2018 January 26, Kgosietsile Ngakaagae, “Of Khama’s gifts and sex dolls”, in Mmegi Online:
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