Elizabeth Pulane Moremi

Elizabeth Pulane Moremi (1912–1994) was a regent and mohumagadi (queen or queen mother) of the BaTawana tribe in the Bechuanaland Protectorate.[1][2][3] She was born in the Orange Free State in South Africa.[2] Her husband Moremi II died when their son Letsholathebe II (born in 1941) was six years old, and she served as regent for their son until he reached the age of majority.[4]

References

  1. East Africa and Rhodesia. Africana. 1956. p. 650.
  2. 1 2 "Moremi, Elizabeth Pulane". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  3. Henry Louis Gates; Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong; Mr. Steven J. Niven (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.
  4. Fred Morton; Jeff Ramsay; Part Themba Mgadla. Historical Dictionary of Botswana. Scarecrow Press. pp. 193–. ISBN 978-0-8108-6404-7.
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