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Chief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies

Chief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies

Date
12 Apr 1887
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Chief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies

Chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, died on the farm Leeukraal, to the north of Hammanskraal and was buried at Wallmansthal. His son Seroto Karel Kekana succeeded him. Shortly after the arrival of the Voortrekkers in the Transvaal, chief Lebelo Seroto, Kekana's father, broke away from the Ndebele in the area of the present-day Potgietersrus. He succeeded his father as captain and moved first to Wallmansthal missionary station, 27 km northeast of Pretoria, and then to the farm Leeuwkraal. At Leeuwkraal he tried to improve the education of his people, by inter alia appointing an African teacher and later obtaining the services of a teacher-evangelist. His desire for a small church at Leeuwkraal became reality in 1882. 

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  1. 01remembered.co.za,"Johannes Jane Tane Kekana (1840 - 1887)",From: remembered.co.za,[Omline], available at: remembered.co.za,[Accessed on: 11 April 2014]
  2. 02Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC.

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Chief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011116

South African History Online (2011) 'Chief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011116 (Accessed: 9 August 2026).

South African History Online, Chief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011116, (accessed 9 August 2026).

"Chief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011116. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Chief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011116.

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