The Bakgatla Ba Ga Mmanaana

These small engagements appear to have sufficiently slowed the Boer advance so as to allow the bulk of the BagaMmanaana and BooRatshosa to regroup with the main body of Bakwena at Dimawe.

The Boers finally arrived at the outskirts of Dimawe on Saturday August 28, 1852. There, in addition to the Bakwena and BagaMmanaana, the invaders found the Bakaa, under Kgosi Mosinyi, and Bangwaketse, under Dikgosi Senthufe and Segotshane, all mobilized against them. The two heretofore-rival Bangwaketse rulers had agreed to reunite their morafe, which had been divided for two decades, in the face of the new Voortrekker threat. All of the groups readily accepted Sechele as their commander-in-chief.