Tutume
There are seven primary schools; Magapatona, Timbi, Thini, Selolwane, Maphorisa and Tutume Central, two junior secondary schools: Denjebuya and Pandagala, and one senior secondary school: Tutume McConnell Community College. It is about 60 km from Domboshaba.
Tutume village is the administration centre for all the villages and settlements in the District area.The village has a police station, a primary hospital,a District hospital currently being constructed,immigration department, a District Council,Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board, Water Utilities Corporation, Botswana Power Corporation, civil registration department, rural administration centre (local council), post office etc. and four(4) supermarkets (Choppies,Saverite,Sefalana and Spar), Pep, Cash Bazaar, metro cash Barclays Bank and carry wholesaler, 4 petrol service stations, Lodges and hotels(Shumba Lodge,Tashatha Lodge,Bodiba Hotels), and many bed and breakfast service areas.
The village acts as an umbrella for different BaKalanga clans who all belong to the Wumbe tribe.Before Tutume being developed people lived at their lands and cattleposts for the fertile virgin-land. People prided themselves in the art of ploughing and animal rearing, despite baboons ransacking the fields and kidnapping lambs in the night. The people of the area also pride themselves in their history and their culture and language as is seen daily by how they live, their culture as well as the names they have and continue to give their children up to this day which are all in their Kalanga tongue.
Notable people
- Kemmy Pilato (born 1989), Botswana footballer
References
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