Makhado

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title: "Makhado" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["venda-people", "monarchies-of-south-africa", "1895-deaths", "people-from-limpopo", "year-of-birth-uncertain"] description: "19th-century Venda chief of the Singo dynasty" topic_path: "geography/south-africa" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhado" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 19th-century Venda chief of the Singo dynasty ::

Makhado (also: Makhato or Makgato, c.1839 – 3 September 1895) was a 19th-century King (Thovhele) in the Singo (or Vhasenzi) dynasty of the Venda Kingdom. They ruled over the Dzanani "district" of the Zoutpansberg region of South Africa. He was the youngest son of Thovhele Ramabulana who died in 1864 when Makhado was about 25. Makhado's mother was Limani, noted for her political intrigue. Makhado's first wife was Nwaphunga. According to Venda historian M. H. Nemudzivhadi, Nwaphunga conspired with a pro-Boer faction among the Venda, and poisoned him in 1895. Makhado was buried "behind Lutshindwi Mountain".

Accession

Limani was the daughter of the khosi of Tshitavhadulu. He intended her to become the new great wife of Ramabulana's younger brother Ramavhoya, then khosi, after her sister's death. With the voortrekker Louis Tregardt's assistance, Ramabulana was able to overthrow Ramavhoya (who earlier had unseated him) and took the option to marry Limani.

Genealogy

• Thohoyandou the Great
• Munzhedzi Mpofu (khosi at Tshirululuni till 1829)
• Rasithu (also known as: Rasethau, Ramabulana, Ramapoelana, Munzhedzi and Ravele), ruled c.1830 and 1836–1864), Ramavhoya (ruled c.1830–1836) and Madzhie were sons of Mpofu
• Davhana and Makhado were sons of Ramabulana
• Maemu Malise, Alilali Tshilamulela (Mphephu I, or M'pefu), Sinthumule and Kutama were sons of Makhado
• Mbulaheni George (Mphephu II)
• Ramaano Patrick (Mphephu III, 1924–1988), president of Venda bantustan (1979–1988)
• Tshimangadzo (Dimbanyika Thohoyandou II) and Toni (Mphephu Ramabulana)

References

References

1. (2014). "Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913: The Politics of Divided Space in the Cape and Transvaal". BRILL.
2. "Mphephu-Boer War, 1898". Luonde Vhavenda History.
3. Loubser, J. H. N.. (1991). "The Ethnoarchaeology of Venda-Speakers in Southern Africa: Chapter 4: The excavation of Mutzheto Pattern settlements". Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum : Researches of the National Museum.
4. Thohoyandou means "head of the elephant"
5. Rasetau means "whose father is a lion"

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