Battle Of Mosita (Part 2)

Monday, January 21, 2019

In our last instalment, the Barolong booRatshidi Kgosi Montshiwa had withdrawn from Lotlhakane to Setlagole where he was joined in his resistance to the Boers by the Barolong booRatlou and Bahurutshe refugees.

Thereafter, Setlagole became a staging post for raids on Boer farms in the western Tranvaal. A surviving Boer document records the loss of 287 cattle from eight Schoonspruit farms during one such foray.

In an attempt to regain the initiative that the Transvaal Boers leading figure, General Andries Pretorius, decided to personally lead a commando against Setlagole.

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Battle Of Mosita (Part 2)

In our last instalment, the Barolong booRatshidi Kgosi Montshiwa had withdrawn from Lotlhakane to Setlagole where he was joined in his resistance to the Boers by the Barolong booRatlou and Bahurutshe refugees.