Linguist, educationist and teacher, Ernest Sedumedi Moloto, who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of South Africa and the Botswana National Language Committee, died in Mamelodi, Pretoria. He was buried at Moruleng, Rustenburg on 10 June 1984. Moloto was Ellen Kuzwayo's first husband.
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28 May 1984
Educationist Ernest Moloto dies
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista.
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