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One of this week's Monday crushes is His Majesty King Mositi Tsolo Lekokoto III, King of the Royal Bakoena Ba Tsolo Clan in South Africa.

Born Clement Magcai on June 21st 1975, in Johannesburg, South Africa to and descends from a long and great paternal lineage of royal ancestors & kings which includes the last kings HM King Lekokoto II, his oldest ruling son HM King Khiba II and his younger brother HRH Prince Mofolo.

Although the kingship was dormant and kingdom going underground, both his grandfather and father in their rightful place as heads of clans handle the issues until a new ruler was set to revive the kingship.

As first born son, His Majesty re-took and revived the kingship titles from his father around June 2015. In his words to me the king said "Our kingship is not new, it is but a resurrection of something ancient."

Reviving and reuniting the clan and its members that had been dispersed since the 19th century following the great war that killed the his 2nd and 3rd times great grand fathers and last kings that left the kingship dormant as been one of his goals since taking over.

Personal life: King Lekokoto III is a single man
A little history:

Like in many African monarchies and their histories, Our Royal ancestors used wars as a way to not just survive but to extend their kingdom's territories, resources and land which in most times led to the killing of the opposing kingdom's kings and entire families.

In the early 19th centuries, the Battle of Zastron(The Battle was one of the three wars fought by the Basotho people living in the area) took place where the Bakoena Ba Tsolo were at war with the Amahlubi kingdom to take over the Bakoena Ba Tsolo's land and areas of royal jurisdiction.

During the war, the last kings HM King Lekokoto II(also known as King Tsolo or Molibeli (Modibedi), his oldest ruling son HM King Khiba II and his younger brother HRH Prince Mofolo were brutally killed in the in battle in the Herschel District of the town of Sterkspruit, Zastron area of the Eastern Cape Province.

Following the deaths of the kings, the tribe became week leaving road for Lifaqane to take place occured. Lifaqane (in Sesotho or Mfecane in isiZulu) now recognised as the period of mass crushing, scattering, forced dispersal, forced migration was a period of widespread chaos and warfare among indigenous ethnic communities in southern Africa during the period between 1815 and about 1840.

This lead to the break up and formation of other clans now formally recognised

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