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King of the Bapedi

Mampuru II (1824 – 22 November 1883) was a king of the Pedi people in southern Africa. Mampuru was a son of the elder brother of Sekwati (known of Maripane Thobejane) and claimed he had been designated as his successor.

Sekwati died in 1861 and his son, Sekhukhune claimed the throne. Sekhukhune ruled until 1879 when a British-Swazi invasion deposed him and installed Mampuru as king.

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Mampuru ordered the assassination of Sekhukhune in 1882 for which he was arrested and hanged by the BoerSouth African Republic the following year. Mampuru is regarded as an early liberation movement icon in South Africa and the prison where he was executed has been renamed in his honour.

Early life

Sekwati died in 1861, but this resulted in a succession crisis.^[1] It was traditional for Pedi rulers to take a timamollo ("candle wife" or "great wife") in addition to their usual wife.

The children of the candlewife would be those who succeeded to the