"Kwena" is a Sotho/Tswana/Sepedi word meaning "crocodile", the crocodile is also their totem (seboko). Earliest ancestor of the Kwena clan, Kwena, was...
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Maleke was a regent of the Kwena tribe. He was the son of kgosi Seitlhamo and the younger brother of kgosi Legwale. Maleke became regent of the Bakwena...
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Motswasele II (category Kwena chiefs)
Motswasele II (died c. 1821) was the kgosi of the Kwena tribe from c. 1805 until his death c. 1821. Motswasele was one of three sons of kgosi Legwale...
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of the Ngwaketse (a tribe of the larger Tswana people). He moved his tribe to Kanye after losing a battle to the nearby Kwena tribe, fortifying the existing...
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Sechele II (category Kwena chiefs)
Kwena tribe in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (modern day Botswana) from 1911 until his death in 1918. His rule was marked by a split within the tribe...
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Matlapeng subsequently allied the Tlokwa with the Kwena tribe (led by Setshele), and his people moved to the Kwena capital, Molepolole. However, Setshele soon...
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Tswana people (section Dynasties and tribe)
The principal Tswana tribes are the: Kwena tribe Mangwato tribe Bangwaketse Rolong tribe Taung tribe Batlhaping tribe Tlôkwa tribe Royal Bafokeng Nation...
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the Kwena tribe, Sechele remained faithful to Christianity and led missionaries to surrounding tribes as well as converting nearly his entire Kwena people...
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Tshosa (category Kwena chiefs)
Tshosa was a regent of the Kwena tribe from 1803 to 1807. He became regent following the death of his brother Maleke, who was also a regent, and he held...
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Moruakgomo Sechele was a pretender of the Kwena tribe as the son of kgosi Sebele II. His claim to be kgosi was widely supported in 1962, but it was challenged...
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