House Of Ngwaketse

For some four centuries the Ngwaketse dynasty has survived, often against the odds, to exert a lasting influence in the development of not only of Botswana, but also the surrounding region.

The autonomous history of the dynasty begins with the life of its namesake, Ngwaketse, who was a junior son of a Mokwena monarch named Malope.

The line of royal decent from Malope the father of Ngwaketse through to the current monarch, Kgosi Malope II, is free of serious dispute. Malope II is the son of Seepapitso VI, who was the son of Bathoen of Seepapitso of Bathoen of Gaseitsiwe of Tshosa of Makgaba of Moleta of Mongala of Makgaba of Khutwane of Leema of Seepapitso, born of Ngwaketse of Malope. 

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