Eponymous founder of the Bakwena ('people of the crocodile'), settled at Molepolole; the senior Bakwena stock from which the Bangwato, Bangwaketse and Batawana royal houses branch (sharing the crocodile totem). Authored as a legendary mortal tribal-founder ancestor (Oghuz-sons pattern), son of Malope and brother of Mohurutshe, Kgatla, Ngwato and Ngwaketse. No mother is registered in the corpus, so only the father edge is wired.