PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The eponymous ancestor was Chief Morolong who may have
lived in the 15th century. He was possibly succeeded by Morare,
Mabe, Mabudi, Moloto, Mabeo, Modiboa, Tshesebat
Setlhare, Masspe, Mokgopha-a-Masepe, Thibels and Tau (see below). Split
at various times, leaving 4 main sections. The baRolong booRatshidi are
in Botswana, other branches in South
Africa. Rulers were...
- Kgosikgolo TAU, married (a), Kgamanae Morakile, married
(b), Kabasana
Mabule, married (c),
Motshwabange
Mabule, married (d), Moswaana, and had issue, at least 10 sons. He died
ca1760 at Taung.
- Kgosikgolo RATLOU (ex Kgamanae) (qv)
- Kgosikgolo TSHIDI (ex Kabasana) (qv) (baRolong
booRatshidi)
- Kgosikgolo MAKGETLA (ex Motshwabange) (qv)
- Kgosikgolo SELEKA (ex Moswaana) (baRolong
baSeleka)
- Kgosikgolo RAPULANA (ex Moswaana) (baRolong
baRapulana)
- Kgosi Modise (ex Kgamanae)
- Kgosi Maleme (ex Motshwabange)
- Kgosi Ganakgomo (ex Motshwabange)
- Kgosi Masetlha (ex Motshwabange)
- Kgosi Ramhitshana (ex Moswaana)
- Kgosi RATLOU ca1760/ca1775, married and had issue. A
disagreement between Tau's sons resulted in Ratlou leaving
home. Several of Ratlou's younger brothers planned to kill him for
leaving. However, Tau's third son Makgetla persuaded them to abandon
their plan out of respect for Ratlou as he was their senior brother
Ratlou was therefore reluctantly allowed to leave with his followers.
Soon afterwards Seleka also left home. Later, both Tshidi and Makgetla
(now known as the peacemaker) left home but continued to live at the
same place together with their respective followers - a situation
regarded as unusual.
- Kgosikgolo SETSHIRO (baRolong
baRatlou booSetshiro)
- Kgosi Modirwagale
- Kgosikgolo MARIBA
- Kgosikgolo MOKALALA (baRolong
baRatlou booMariba)
baRolong baRatlou booSetshiro (Senior
branch)(at
Khunwana):
baRolong baRatlou booMariba (Junior
branch):
baRolong baSeleka (at Thaba Nchu):
Incorporated into Orange Free State in July 1884.
baRolong
baRapulana (at
Rietfontein):
- Kgosi SEATLHOLO -/2002, Kgosi of the baRolong baRapulana
booSeatlholo, married Kgosigadi Anthea (Seatlholo). He died 2002.
- Kgosigadi Anthea (Seatlholo) 2002/-
baRolong booRatshidi (at Mafikeng):
- Kgosikgolo TSHIDI ca1760/ca1775, married (a), Maetswana,
married (b), Khukhu, married (c), Khukhwana. He died in a battle with
the Dihoja tribe near
Mamusa about the year 1775 (6).
- Kgosikgolo THUTLWA (ex Maetswana) (qv)
- Kgosi Mojankuyana (ex Maetswana)
- Kgosi Mokgothu (ex Maetswana)
- Kgosi LESHOMO (ex Khukhu) (qv)
- Kgosi Mabina (ex Khukhu)
- Kgosi Thatane (ex Khukhwana)
- Kgosi Mangwegape (ex Khukhwana)
- Kgosi THUTLWA ca1775/ca1785,
married (a) Morwa
Makgetla, (b) Morwanyana Makgetla, (c) Motshidisi Makgetla, (d) Mmu
Maetso,
(e) Serai, (f) Kefalotse Motlhaku, (g) Masukutswane Nthufa and had
issue.
He died ca1785.
- Kgosi Tau (ex Morwa), died sp young, so, a variation of a
'levirate' was arranged by the tribe between Tawana and his maternal
cousin Sebodio, who was a daughter of Phetlhu Makgetla who was the
brother of Tawana's mother Morwanyane. This was arranged for the sole
purpose of providing a son for the deceased Tau in order, once
again, to perpetuate the line of chieftainship. Therefore, although
Sebodio was Tawana's third wife she was to be regarded as his principal
wife and her children as Tau's children.
- Kgosikgolo TAWANA (ex Morwanyana)(qv)
- Koto (f) (ex Morwanyana), died 6th August 1832.
- Kotonyana (f) (ex Morwanyana), died 6th August 1832.
- Kgosi Moshoela (ex Motshidisi), had issue.
- Kgosi Mmamorena (ex Motshidisi)
- Kgosi
Mamlorolo (ex Motshidisi)
- Kgosi Masetlha (ex Mmu Maetso)
- Kgosi Lekgetho (ex Serai)
- Kgosi Legae (ex Kefalotse)
- Kgosi Lekone (ex Kefalotse), had issue.
- Kgosi Phatudi, died September 1852.
- Kgosi Matsheka (ex Masukutswane), living 1818.
- Kgosi MAKGETLA 1785/1790 (Acting
Chief),
had issue. He was killed ca1790 in a battle with the Bahurutshe
booManyana.
- Morwa (f), married Kgosi THUTLWA (qv).
- Morwanyana (f), married Kgosi THUTLWA (qv).
- Motshidisi (f), married Kgosi THUTLWA (qv).
- Kgosi Phetlhu, married and had issue.
- Sebodio (f), married Kgosi TAWANA and had issue. She
died 6th August 1832.
- Kgosi
Mokgweetsi, died 11th June 1890.
- Kgosi LESHOMO 1790/1815
(Regent), by 1814, when Tawana was aged 30 and already had several
wives, Leshomo refused to hand over the
chieftainship to him. A serious dispute developed between the two which
split the Ratshidi clan into two factions, the larger faction under
Leshomo remained at Gatshebethwane
near Disaneng while the smaller faction under Tawana fled further
westwards - first to Loporung and Mmakgori beyond Phitsane Molopo, and
then north across the Molopo to Tsoaneng and Moshaneng, south west of
Kanye in Botswana, married and had
issue. He died
1818.
- Dikgang (f), married Kgosi TAWANA
and had
issue. She
died 6th August 1832.
- Kgosikgolo TAWANA 1815/1849, born
ca1775, established his
capital at Phitsane in 1815, with the help of Chief
Makaba's Bangwaketse, now allies of the Ratshidi, he drove out Leshomo
from Gatshebethwane eastwards into Bahurutshe territory where, in 1818,
Leshomo was killed, in June 1823, Tawana's Ratshidi were forced to
leave
Phitsane
in order to avoid attack by the Batlokwa and their allies who had just
devastated Kaditshwene. The Ratshidi found refuge with the Ratlou clan
at Khunwana until, on the 6th August 1832, the town was destroyed and
many of its inhabitants killed by Mzilikazi's Ndebele warriors. The
survivors under Tawana fled south eastwards to
Thaba Nchu. He
married 1stly, Dikgang Leshomo, she died 6th August 1832, married
2ndly, Mosela-a-Molekane of the Rapulana clan, she
died 6th
August 1832, married 3rdly, Sebudio, daughter of Phetlhu (see above),
she
died 6th
August 1832, married (a), Letshane, daughter of Dingoko, she died 6th
August
1832,
married (b), MmaSefera, daughter of Chief Makaba of the
Bangwaketse, married (c), Senaanye Molekane, died 6th August
1832, married (d), Mojanku
Marumulwa, married (e), Mojankunyana Marumulwa (married Kgosi Tshosa of
the
baNgwaketse
and Nco Dingoko, by both of whom she had issue), and had issue. He died
October 1849 and was buried in Dithakong.
- Morwanyana (f) (ex Dikgang)
- Motshidisi (f) (ex Dikgang)
- MmaMorena (f) (ex Dikgang)
- Manca (f) (ex Dikgang)
- Kgosi Seetsela (ex Mosela), died 1818.
- Kgosi Tlala (ex Mosela), married Nkhabele
Palo (married 2ndly, Kgosikgolo MOROKA II) and had issue. He died
1832
- Moutlwatsi (f)
- Kgosi Setlogelo, living 1878.
- Kgosikgolo Samuel TSHIPINARE
of the baRolong
baSeleka.
- Kgosi Motshegare (ex Mosela), had issue.
- Gaeshele Motshegare (f), married 1870, Kgosikgolo
MONTSHIWA (qv), and had issue.
She
died after October 1896.
- Kgosi Mokholokholo Motshegare, died August 1881.
- Kgosi Molema (ex Mosela), born 1817 in Phitsane, married
and had issue. He died
21st January
1882.
- Kgosi JOSHUA MOLEMA, fl.1917
- Kgosi Israel Molema, died March 1896.
- Kgosi Tawana Molema, died 31st July 1884.
- Kgosi Silas Thelesho Molema, born 1852, secretary and
chief advisor to Chief Montshiwa, married
Molalanyana Mamhula, and
had issue. He died 1929.
- Kgosi Dr. Silas Modiri Molema, born February 1891 in
Mafikeng, educated at Lovedale Institution (Matriculation), worked as a
teacher in Kimberly until
1914 when he moved to Europe, admitted into the Medical
School of Glasgow University; elected as National Secretary of the
African National Congress in December 1940; served on the African
Advisory Council, Joint Advisory Council, and the Constitutional
Committee; served as a member of Legislative Council; author of "The Bantu Past and Present: An
Ethnographical and Historical Study of the Native Races of South Africa"
(1920); "Montshiwa 1815-1896:
BaRolong Chief and Patriot" (1966), and "Chief Moroka: His Life, His Country and
His People" (1987); he married 1927, Anna
Moshoela (sister of Ella Moshoela, wife of Kgosi Tshekedi Khama), and
daughter of Rev. M. J. Moshoela, one-time secretary, councillor and
friend of the late Chief Montshiwa. He
died sp 13th
August 1965 in Mafikeng. (3)
- Kgosi Phetogane (ex Mosela)
- Majang (f) (ex Mosela), married 1839, Kgosikgolo
MONTSHIWA, and had issue. She
died
January 1891.
- Kgosikgolo MONTSHIWA (7) (ex
Sebudio) (qv)
- Kgosi Marumulwa (ex Sebudio), had issue.
- Kgosi Lekoko, living 1915, acting chief (see below).
- Kgosi
Selere (ex Sebudio), married and had issue. He died November 1881.
- Kgosi Tiego Tawana, Acting Chief (see below)
- Kgosi Seru (ex Sebudio), living 1896.
- Kgosi Montshiwane (ex Letshane)
- Kgosi Rabodietso (ex MmaSefera)
- Kgosi Saane (ex MmaSefera), married Mosadikwena, born
1837, died 1940. He died after 1896.
- Keethufile (f) (ex Senaanye)
- Kgosikgolo MONTSHIWA 1849/1896, born
August 1815
in Tswaneng, married (amongst others) (a) ca1837 at Thaba Nchu,
Motshidisi Mokgwetsi,
married (b),
1839 at Thaba Nchu, Majang Tawana (see above), married (c) at Thaba
Nchu, Tshadinyana,
daughter of Kgosikgolo
TSHOSA
of the baNgwaketse and Mojankunyana Marumulwa (see above), married (d),
Onyana
Nco
(married Kgosi SEGOTSHANE of the baNgwaketse),
daughter of Nco Dingoko and Mojankunyana Marumulwa (see above), married
(e),
1870,
Gaeshele Motshegare, married (f), Gadibusanye, daughter of Kgosi
SENTHUFE of the
baNgwaketse, married (g), Mosidi Bopalamo, and had issue. He died 19th
October
1896
in Mafikeng.(4)(5)
- Kgosi Sekgoro, born ca1838, died 1853 in Moshaneng.
- Buku (f) (ex Majang), born 1840, married Kgosi TSHIPINARE
(qv).
- Kgosi Kebalepile (ex Tshadinyana), born 1850, married and
had issue. He
died May 1891.
- Kgosikgolo LOTLAAMORENG (qv)
- Kgosi BESELE I (ex Tshadinyana)(qv)
- Kgosi Tawana (ex Tshadinyana)
- Kgosi Makgetla (ex Onyana)
- Kgosi BADIRILE (ex Gaeshele) (qv)
- Moledi (f) (ex Gaeshele)
- Kgosi Ketshedile (ex Gaeshele)
- Kgosi BAKOLOPANG (ex Gaeshele)(qv)
- Kgosi Mosarwa (ex Gadibusanye)
- Kgosi Taufele (ex Gadibusanye)
- Kgosi Sefularo (ex Gadibusanye)
- Kgosi Barolong (ex Mosidi)
- Kgosi Koto
- Kgosi Koakae
- Kgosi Morobela
- Kgosi BESELE I 1896/1903, married and
had issue. He died 1903.
- Kgosi BADIRILE 1903/1911, died 1911
- Kgosi LEKOKO MARUMULWA 1911/1915
- Kgosi JOSHUA MOLEMA 1915/1917
- Kgosi BAKOLOPANG 1917/1919, died 1919
- Kgosikgolo LOTLAAMORENG I 1919/1954,
married and had issue.
- Kgosikgolo KEBALEPILE (qv)
- Kgosikgolo BESELE II (qv)
- Kgosi TIEGO TAWANA 1954/-
- Kgosikgolo KEBALEPILE [Kebalepile Montshioa] -/1971,
married (amongst others) Kgosigadi Neonyana (see below), and had issue.
He died
1971.
- [Kgosi Setumo Stephen
Montshiwa -/2000, Paramount Chief of
the baRolong
booRatshidi
in South Africa, married and had issue. He died 2nd July 2000 in
Victoria
Hospital, Mafikeng, aged 45, buried 7th July 2000 in Mmabatho Cemetary.
- Kgosi Ratshidi Montshioa, a claimant for the title in
2000.]
- Kgosi Jeffrey Kgotleng Montshiwa 2000/-, installed as
Paramount Chief of
the
baRolong booRatshidi in South Africa, on 25th April 2001, confirmed as
rightful heir of the baRaolong booRatshidi by a Mafikeng High Court
judgement on 6th February 2003.
- Kgosigadi Neonyana
1971/1974 (Regent), she was accused of inefficiency and allowing the
influx of immigrants into her area.
- R. Motlhatledi 1977/1982 (Tribal
Authority)
- Kgosikgolo BESELE II [Besele Montshioa] 1971/1977 and
1982/2001, married and had issue. He died 17th June 2001.
- Kgosikgolo LOTLAAMORENG II (qv)
- Kgosikgolo LOTLAAMORENG II (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kealeboga Motshegare, Deputy Chief
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