The St. Anna sodality in Botswana started with three ladies at the St. Theresa Parish, Lobatse in 1952. These ladies Ms. Evelyn Segano, Ms. Lea Makgonatsotlhe and Ms. Catherine Montwedi came in touch with the sodality in South Africa. It was the missionary Bishop Joseph Cyprian Bonhomme, OMI who came to Lesotho that introduced the sodality to southern Africa in 1934, from his native Canada where it was first initiated in Quebec by Fr. R. Honorat, OMI in 1850.

Fr. A. Webb and Mr. Segano worked hard to promote the sodality in Lobatse and after three years, they had 24 members. In the beginning only married women of 60 years were eligible for membership. This has been relaxed to include all Catholic women.

The aims of the organization are to work for our homes, to work for the church and to work for the nation. In view of this St. Anna promotes the evangelization of people. The mission of the sodality is to be prayerful, obedient to the church and service in humility.

Soon the sodality spread to the whole country and in 1999 the Vicariate leadership group was established. Today membership in the Vicariate of Francistown stands at around 500.