Mission To Cape Town

In our extended account of the 1852-53 Batswana-Boer War, we last left off at Motito on the 19th of December 1852, where Kgosi Sechele encountered Dr. David Livingstone, along with his then close confidant the African-American trader, George Fleming.

Having already passed by the village on his way to Kudumane to join his wife and children for Christmas at the Moffat’s, Sechele had turned back upon learning of Livingstone’s presence.

The Mokwena was exhausted, having ridden all night, but nonetheless wasted no time in imploring the missionary to join him on his Cape Town mission.

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