Sotho-Tswana heritage
Sotho clan names & Direto
The Basotho of Lesotho, the Free State and Gauteng.
SesothoDireto11 clans
Sotho clans
11 clans
- B Bakwena ba Mopeli Sotho · Bakwena ba Mopeli are the community of the Qwaqwa area that traces itself to Paulus Mopeli, a younger brother of Moshoeshoe. A government commission found that… View clan
- B Bataung Sotho · The Bataung are a Basotho tribe whose totem is the lion (tau). A Free State heritage statement says they separated from the Bahurutse around 1640 and… View clan
- B Batlokwa Sotho · The Batlokwa are a Kgatla people with communities in South Africa, Lesotho and Botswana. They are remembered for MaNthatisi, the regent whose people were called the… View clan
- B Batlokwa ba Mota Sotho · Batlokwa ba Mota are the community of the Qwaqwa area that traces itself to Mota, a younger brother of Sekonyela. A government commission found that its… View clan
- L Letsie Sotho · Letsie I (born Mohato about 1811, died 20 November 1891) was Moshoeshoe's eldest son by his senior wife and paramount chief of the Basotho from 1870.… View clan
- M Mokhachane Sotho · Mokhachane was the father of Moshoeshoe I and a minor chief of the Bamokoteli, a branch of the Bakoena. A doctoral thesis abstract calls him the… View clan
- M Mokoena Sotho · Mokoena (Koena, Kwena) is the crocodile clan name shared by many Sotho and Tswana peoples. Moshoeshoe I's Bamokoteli were a branch of the Bakoena. Wikipedia traces… View clan
- M Molapo Sotho · Molapo was a son of Moshoeshoe I who escorted the first missionaries to Thaba Bosiu in 1833 with Letsie and, after 1870, was based at Leribe.… View clan
- M Moletsane Sotho · Moletsane was a Bataung chief who, a Lesotho official says, joined the alliance under Moshoeshoe I, with his territory at Taung near the Makhaleng River. A… View clan
- M Mopeli Sotho · Mopeli is the family name of the chiefs of Bakwena ba Mopeli in Qwaqwa. It goes back to Paulus Mopeli, whom a government commission describes as… View clan
- M Moshoeshoe Sotho · Moshoeshoe I (about 1786 to 11 March 1870), born Lepoqo, was the first king of Lesotho, chief of the Bamokoteli branch of the Bakoena. He built… View clan
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