PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
about 1200. Rulers were...
- Kgosi DIALE (son), fl.1750
- Kgosi RAMORWA (son), had issue.
- Kgosi SEKETE IV (qv)
- MMUTLE (Kgosi?)
- Kgosi SEKETE IV (son) fl.1790, had issue.
- Kgosi THETHE (qv)
- NOGE (Kgosi?)
- Kgosi August MOKGATLE 1834/1891, died 1891.
- Kgosi MOLOTLEGI 1897/1938
- Kgosi MANOTSHE 1938/1956, born about 1900, had
issue.
He died 1956.
- Kgosi Edward Patrick LEBONE MOLOTLEGI I (qv)
- George Molotlegi, married Teresa (Molotlegi).
- Kgosi Edward Patrick LEBONE MOLOTLEGI I 1956/1995,
born 28th November
1928, married 1963, Semane Bonolo [Mohumagadi Semane], born in
Botswana,
and had issue, as well as further issue. He died 17th November 1995 and
was buried 26th November
at Legato Kraal, Phokeng near Rustenberg.
- Kgosi Mollwane Boikanyo LEBONE MOLOTLEGI II (qv)
- Prince Fosi Boemo Molotlegi, born 1966, died sp 18th
April 1999
in Johannesburg, buried 1st May 1999 in Phokeng.
- Kgosi LERUO MOLOTLEGI (qv)
- Prince Bothata Molotlegi
- Princess Motswana Molotlegi
- Princess Tirelo Molotlegi
- Ms. Lerato W. Makenna
- Ms. Vivian
- Kgosi Mollwane Boikanyo LEBONE MOLOTLEGI II 1995/2000,
born 1965,
Graduate of Howard University in 1991, died sp 29th March 2000
in
Johannesburg, buried 8th April 2000 in Phokeng.
- Kgosi LERUO TSHEKEDI MOLOTLEGI (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kgosi Mmokanelo Serobatse of the baFokeng bagaMatlatla,
uncle
of Kgosi
Leruo.
- Chief Glad Mokgatle 1905-1990, had issue.
- Aaron Mokgatle, born c1942.
- Charles Mokgatle
-
 Naboth
Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle, born 1st April 1911, was the eighth
and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and
carpenter,
and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle. His grandfather was Mokgatle Mokgatle
(Sekete)
the paramount Chief of the Bakwena tribe of Mmanape of Tshukudu in
Phokeng,
Rustenburg. Mokgatle's grandmother, Matlhodi Paulina Kekana-Mokgatle,
was
the daughter of Chief Kekana of the Potgietersrust area of the former
Northern
Transvaal (Northern Province). Mokgatle started his primary education
in
1925 at the Phokeng Preparatory School, run by the Pentecostal Holiness
Church of the Reverend K. Spooner. However, his age and the need for a
living wage, among other things, forced him to end his formal schooling
in 1929. In 1930 Mokgatle moved to Pretoria, where he devoted much of
his
life to political and labour struggles. His initiation into protest
politics
took place towards the end of 1930 when he joined the campaign to burn
the hated pass books that the law required all black people to carry on
them. As a member of the Matopo Hills soccer team he was further drawn
into politics in sport, especially in 1931 when the Scottish team
Motherwell
toured South Africa and played only against white teams. Mokgatle's
keen
interest in reading inspired him to enrol at a number of night schools
in Pretoria and Johannesburg. Some of these were run by members of the
South African Communist Party and gave him the opportunity to learn
more
about communism and trade unionism. His political and trade union
activism
was given impetus when he joined the Communist Party of South Africa
(CPSA).
He was elected to the Pretoria district committee of the CPSA in 1941,
which further stimulated his activities in these areas. The period
between
1943 and 1954 was his most fruitful and saw his greatest contributions
to trade union and political organisations in South Africa. He
collaborated
with other trade unionists and activists, leading to the formation of
many
unions in Pretoria. He became full-time General Secretary of the
Non-European
Distributive Workers' Union in 1943. He served on the executive
committee
of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions and became the
secretary
of its Pretoria branch during the 1940s. In the late 1940's, he formed
and led the Dairy Workers' Union and the highly successful African
General
Workers' Union. Mokgatle was highly critical of the cosmetic reforms of
the 'liberal' government of J.C. Smuts and of the ANC's moderate
approach
to successive white governments. He took strong exception to the
operation
of the Natives' Representative Council. He and S.S. Tefu turned the
Pretoria
Market into a political arena where a series of political meetings were
held and fierce political speeches delivered. When the government of Dr
D.F. Malan passed the Suppression of Communism Act in 1950, Mokgatle's
'political home' was destroyed as the CPSA disbanded. Mokgatle's
various
organized labour and political activities brought him into headlong
contact
with state repression. Between 1930 and 1954 he was arrested and
imprisoned
on countless occasions. His union's offices in Pretoria and his homes
in
Marabastad, lady Selbourne and Atteridgeville were frequently searched
and many documents seized. His overseas mail was intercepted and
confiscated.
The banning orders placed on him in 1952 and 1954 by Minister of
Justice,
Education, Arts and Science, C.R. Swart, effectively denied him any
form
of existence in South Africa. Mokgatle therefore left South Africa on
September
1954 with a self-written affidavit in his passport. He ultimately made
Catford (London) his home, aided by the Africa Bureau of Reverends M.
Scott
and M. Benson. Later his family joined him in exile. In 1956 his
Atteridgeville
home in South Africa was ransacked during the events that led to the
infamous
Treason Trial. Mokgatle began writing The autobiography of an unknown
South
African in 1961. Mokgatle married Nana Tlhogo in 1941. They had one
daughter,
Keitumetse Thabo, and a son, Matshidiso Ernest. Mokgatle died in 1985
owing
to illness. His son brought his cremated remains back to South Africa
where
they were scattered in three places, Phokeng, Atteridgeville and Church
Square in Pretoria. Prepared by T.J. Makhura,
lecturer, Department
of History, Vista University (Sebokeng Campus). The new dictionary of
South
Africa biography Volume 2, Vista University, Pretoria, 1999.
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born 1968, educated at Hilton College, Natal and Natal
University (degree in
Architecture and Urban Planning), coronated 16th August 2003 in
Phokeng, a former member
of the Implats Board, the world’s second largest platinum producer, a
Director of the Royal Bafokeng Resources (RBR), a wholly
owned Bafokeng company, and President of the Mineral Rights Association
of Indigenous People of South Africa. He is a
fixed wing and rotorcraft pilot and holds an honourary position with
the South African Air Force.