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Thobile Jiwulane It was the soundtrack of the streets in Mahikeng from the late 1990s and to the early 2000s before reaching crossover appeal, finding resonance with music fanatics countrywide and beyond the borders. At some point, the Motswako genre catapulted the North West province to the hip hop headlines and made people sit up and take notice. The fusion of the Setswana language into the hip hop sphere was a unique take that defied tribalism and showed the masses that there's room for different South African languages at the hip hop table and music at large. Now, the story of Motswako – a sub-genre of the South African version of rap, whose name denotes a mixture, owing to its multilingualism, with Setswana as the main ingredient – is finally being told. It was th...