JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Makobo Modjadji, the famed rain queen of South Africa’s Balobedu people, has died of unspecified causes after just two years in power, the Modjadji Royal Council said ...

Late Sunday night, hours before the funeral for Makobo Modjadji VI, rain queen of the Balobedu, shouts of alarm rang from the mountaintop redoubt that had been her home. The simple building that ...

QUEEN Modjadji VI, who has died aged 27, was the youngest of South Africa's rain queens, one in a line of matriarchal monarchs stretching back at least 200 years and probably beyond in the mists and ...

Polokwane - The coffin containing the body of Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji was rescued from a fire in the homestead in Modjadji where her body had been placed, police said on Monday. Limpopo police ...

The Modjadji Royal Council confirmed on Monday the death of Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji of the Balobedu people in Limpopo. Modjadji was admitted to the Medi-Clinic in Polokwane on Friday, and died on ...

The death of the youngest and most short-lived of the rain queens, Makobo Modjadji, this week has thrown the Balobedu nation into mourning. Mathole Motshekga, former Gauteng premier and legal adviser ...

Queen Modjadji VI, who has died aged 27, was the youngest of South Africa's rain queens, one in a line of matriarchal monarchs stretching back at least 200 years and probably beyond in the mists and ...

Makobo Modjadji, the rain queen who led South Africa's Balobedu people, has died aged only 27. It is not known what killed the rain queen, who was crowned in 2003 at the age of 25. She was the sixth ...