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Thuto Ramafifi

association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ27580730 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thuto Oaboloka Ramafifi (born 9 January 1992) is a Motswana footballer who plays as a striker.

Early life

Ramafifi played netball at a young age.

Education

Ramafifi attended Ledumang Senior Secondary School in Botswana.

Club career

Ramafifi has been the top scorer of the NCAA Division II with twenty-six goals.

International career

Ramafifi played for the Botswana women's national football team for the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification.

Style of play

Ramafifi mainly operates as a striker and has been described as "modeling her style of play on Portuguese icon Cristiano Ronaldo.

Managerial career

Ramfifi attended a preliminary FIFA coaching course in Namibia and a Premier Skills coaching course in Botswana.

Personal life

Ramfifi is a native of Gaborone, Botswana.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Thuto Ramafifi” as association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Thuto, Ramafifi and association.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-01-09. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Thuto, Ramafifi and association providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27580730. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thuto Ramafifi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.