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Pedi and Northern Sotho clan names & Direto
The Bapedi and related Northern Sotho clans of Limpopo.
SepediDireto13 clans
Pedi and Northern Sotho clans
13 clans
- B Bakgaga Pedi and Northern Sotho · Bakgaga is a name Wikipedia’s Northern Sotho article lists with Mphahlele, Maake and Mothapo as one of the Pedi groups; the sources that name them use… View clan
- B Bakone Pedi and Northern Sotho · Bakone is a Northern Sotho clan name. A South African tourism page says it comes from Bakone ba Matlala a Thaba, who lived near Polokwane in… View clan
- B Bapedi Pedi and Northern Sotho · The Bapedi (also called the Marota, or Maroteng for the royal house) built one of the most formidable 19th-century kingdoms in the South African interior, centred… View clan
- B Batau Pedi and Northern Sotho · The Batau are a Northern Sotho clan of Sekhukhuneland with the lion as totem. Wikipedia gives two accounts of where they came from and a tradition… View clan
- L Lobedu Pedi and Northern Sotho · The Balobedu (Lobedu) people of Limpopo are known across South Africa and beyond for one thing above all: an unbroken line of reigning queens, the Modjadji… View clan
- M Mamabolo Pedi and Northern Sotho · The Mamabolo are a Northern Sotho (Pedi) community of the hills east of Polokwane. A 1940 history written in Northern Sotho for the ethnologist N. J.… View clan
- M Mampuru Pedi and Northern Sotho · Mampuru II was a son of Sekwati who claimed the Pedi throne against his half-brother Sekhukhune. After Sekhukhune was killed in 1882, Mampuru took refuge with… View clan
- M Maroteng Pedi and Northern Sotho · Maroteng is the royal clan of the Bapedi, the people who built the Pedi kingdom in what is now Limpopo. Its best-known rulers were Thulare, Sekwati… View clan
- M Masemola Pedi and Northern Sotho · Masemola is a Batau chiefdom of Sekhukhuneland, named for Masemola, said to be a son of Matlebjane. Ga Masemola is a large village area in Makhuduthamaga.… View clan
- M Mothapo Pedi and Northern Sotho · Mothapo is a name Wikipedia’s Northern Sotho article lists with Mphahlele and Maake under Bakgaga, and a Mothapo Traditional Council exists in Limpopo. We found no… View clan
- M Mphahlele Pedi and Northern Sotho · Mphahlele is a Northern Sotho royal house, called Bakgaga ba Mphahlele in a recent government certificate. We found a record of a 1953 banishment of its… View clan
- N Nkadimeng Pedi and Northern Sotho · Nkadimeng is a Pedi royal-house name of Manganeng in the Leolu foothills of Sekhukhuneland. A government commission names a Nkadimeng house as the family of Sekhukhune… View clan
- S Sekhukhune Pedi and Northern Sotho · Sekhukhune is the royal name of the Pedi kings. Sekhukhune I fought the Transvaal Republic in 1876 and the British in 1879 and was killed in… View clan
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