Sebele I
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BornCirca 1841
Bechuanaland Protectorate (nowadays, Botswana)
DiedJanuary 1911 (aged 70–71)
Term1892 – 1911[3]
Sebele I | |
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 Portrait of Sebele in his twenties taken by German anthropologist Gustav Fritsch at Ntsweng (nowadays, Old Molepolole) in 1865.[1] | |
| Born | Circa 1841 Bechuanaland Protectorate (nowadays, Botswana) |
| Died | January 1911 (aged 70–71) |
| Title | Kgosi of the Kwena |
| Term | 1892 – 1911[3] |
| Predecessor | Sechele I[3] |
| Successor | Sechele II[3] |
Sebele I was a chief (kgosi) of the Kwena —a major Tswana tribe (morafe) in modern-day Botswana— who ruled from 1892 until his death in 1911.[4] During his lifetime, he resisted the 1885 Bechuanaland Protectorate[5] as well as the control of his domains by Cecil Rhodes' British South African Company, which was administering, by a royal charter signed in October 1889, his homeland in the Bechuanaland Protectorate and other regions of Central Africa.[6]
