Makobo Modjadji

Makobo Constance Modjadji VI. (* 1978 in Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa, † 12 June 2005 in Polokwane ) was a tribal queen in northern South Africa.

Modjadji VI. was crowned on 16 April 2003 in Duiwelskloof ( Limpopo Province) to the recent rain queen of the Balobedu tribe, one of the few matriarchal tribes of Africa. She joined the succession of her grandmother Mokope Modjadji V., which had died two years before, and belonged to Monomatapa Dynasty. Modjadji means " woman who belongs to the sun."

The actual successor, Makobos mother, Princess Maria Modjadji died two days before her grandmother. So Makobo became the youngest queen of the 400 -year-old dynasty, after having passed exams ritual.

Makobo had a high school degree and was the first queen with education. As they advanced techniques such as television or cell phone is not locked, she was seen by many observers as a bridge between tradition and modernity.

Each queen of this tribe is said that it has an influence on the weather patterns in Africa. For this reason they are referred to as rain queens. In fact, it was in the regency period without a drought. At the coronation, however, put a light drizzle.

When asked if she could really conjure rain, Modjadji VI replied. a reporter that this can only be God, but they could make contact with the ancestors.

Ancestors play as with all African peoples even in the Bolobedu a central role. Who loses contact with the ancestors, loses his soul.

At her death in hospital of Polokwane, in which they had been admitted two days earlier, she left a daughter at the age of three months. The African National Congress, President Thabo Mbeki and other personalities from South Africa condolences to the royal family.

The author Henry Rider Haggard has described in the works of King Solomon 's Mines and She, the Rain Queen Masalanabo Modjadji II in the 1880s.

Earlier rain queens of Monomatapa Dynasty

  • Maselekwane Modjadji I. (1800-1854)
  • Masalanabo Modjadji II (1854-1895)
  • Khetoane Modjadji III. (1896-1959)
  • Modjadji IV (1959-1980)
  • Mokope Modjadji V. (1981-2001)
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