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Bafokeng ba Morara Clan — History & Meaning
Sotho clan · Sesotho
Totem Wild vine / grape vine (Sesotho: morara)
History & origin
A branch of the senior Bafokeng stock distinguished by veneration of the morara (wild vine) rather than the hare. The Bafokeng are recorded with multiple totems across their lineages — phoka (dew), mmutla (hare) and morara (wild vine) — and the morara lines form one such sub-tradition within the same 'people of the dew' clan that is among the oldest Sotho-Tswana groups south of the Vaal and a founding stock of the Basotho. Documentation of the morara branch as a discrete chiefdom is thinner than for the clan as a whole; the totem attribution itself is well attested.
Associated surnames
Surnames that share this clan: Mofokeng, Bafokeng ba Mmutla.
We publish the full diboko (clan praises) only once we can verify them against documented tradition — for this clan they are still being confirmed. If you can share an authoritative version, corrections are warmly welcomed.