DIKGAFELA
Dikgafela
is a ceremony that is conducted to thank
the divinity for fruitful harvest. The festival is meant to appease the heavens
to release the rains. Reed baskets are filled with all imaginable crops
& traditional beer in clay pots are brought to Kgosi and his royal aid by
women carrying moologa
branches, and ritualistic requests are made of Kgosi to ask for the rain. Dikgafela
celebrations marks the highlights of the people's happiness according to our
culture. The ceremony is originally celebrated around September as it is
the time when farmers had to harvest.