Seipone is the third eldest daughter of the late Kgosi Church Seipone, who passed on in 2010 after leading his tribe for 38 years. Motaung wants Motshegwa to take what he calls corrective measures to restore the chieftainship of Kang village to the rightful heir, being him as the firstborn son of Gaeboelwe Pego, the son of Motaung, who was first gazetted as a Native Authority by High Commissioner’s Notice No. 19 of 1944. He has also attached a District Commissioner’s Office report for Tsabong Via Kuruman dated April 10, 1945, received by Botswana National Archives and Records Services on April 23, 1945. “The report is explicit and clear on the chieftainship of my great-grandfather,” he stated. According to Motaung, the appointment of Church Seipone was a vote-casting appointment, so no child of Church Seipone could be an heir and inherit the chieftainship because he became chief through the casting of a ballot.
“Numerous inquiries and inquests were made by the government, which revealed that the rightful heir to the Kang royalty is myself, Omponye Motaung, as a firstborn son of Gaeboelwe Pego, who was a firstborn son of Motaung Seipone, firstborn in Pego Kathu’s homestead,” he wrote. He states that the latest inquest was on November 19, 2013, comprising Kgosi Seboko being Mookamela makgotla a Setswana (Dikgotla overseer), Kgosi Mokhutshwane Sekgoma, Senior Sub Tribal Authority Serowe, Kgosi Elijah Makgoeng, headman of record Serowe, Kgosi Morabeng Phori of Kang, Kgosi Montshiwa of Lehututu (deceased), Kgosi Masimong Phori of Phuduhudu, Kgosi Seka of Inalegolo, Mme Letshelaphala as acting District Commissioner of Hukuntsi, Mme Pule, Tribal Secretary Kgalagadi, and Rre Otsile Bailelwang as Master of Ceremonies. This commission of inquiry, he said, revealed that the appointment of Church Seipone derailed the chieftainship of Kang due to reasons which existed at the time. He states that Gaeboelwe Pego had nominated Makake Seipone as regent but was not considered due to illiteracy; as a result, Church Seipone won against Samuel Pego through the casting of a vote.
