Letsie II.

Letsie II. [ Leˈt͡siɪ ] (* around 1869 , † 1913 ; also Letsie Lerotholi ; occasionally Letsienyana, German "Little Letsie") was head ( Sesotho morena e moholo , English Paramount Chief ) of the Basotho people in Basutoland from 1905 to 1913 , today Lesotho .

Life

Letsie II was the first-born son of the second wife of the morena e moholo Lerotholi . He grew up in his father's village, Likhoele near Matsieng . With his father he successfully fought against his uncle Masopha in 1898.

Lerotholi died on August 9, 1905. Letsie II was the first morena e moholo to be appointed by the British High Commissioner . He founded the village of Phahameng between Likhoele and Morija , where he resided from then on. Letsie II spoke out against the integration of Basutoland into the South African Union founded in 1910 . Letsie II was one of the leaders in the founding of the South African National Council , the forerunner of the African National Congress . He died in 1913.

Letsie II had a long relationship with 'Mamojela, a widowed concubine of his grandfather Letsie I. The only male descendant of a marriage was the son Tau, who died shortly after Letsies II's death in an unexplained manner. Letsie's successor was his brother Griffith Lerotholi .

See also

• Letsie III.

literature

• Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , pp. 182-183.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , p. 182.
2. ^ Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , p. 183.