motlagomang phelma monamodi was born in 1964, in Free State, South Africa. She died in 1979, in her hometown, at the age of 15.
First used by the novelist Marie Corelli for the heroine of her novel Thelma ( 1887 ). She was supposed to be Norwegian, but it is not a traditional Scandinavian name. Greek thelēma (neuter) means ‘wish’ or ‘(act of) will’, and the name could perhaps be interpreted as a contracted form of this.
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