Mokope Modjadji V (27 April 1937 – 28 June 2001) was the fifth Rain Queen of the Balobedu Nation in the Limpopo Province of South Africa from 1981 until her death in 2001.
Mokope Modjadji met and became good friends with the then President of South Africa Nelson Mandela in 1994.
Later they became better friends and Mandela bought the Rain Queen a Japanese car to help her travel up the steep roads to her Royal Compound.
[citation needed] Mokope Modjadji had three children, including her designated successor, Princess Makheala.
Mokope's son, Prince Masopha Edwin Modjadji, died in August 2005.