The Boer Retreat

From their separate reports it is clear that in the immediate aftermath of the engagement that both Sechele and Scholtz were painfully aware of their own losses, but ignorant of the status of their opponent’s forces.

The Transvaal Boer invasion of Botswana finally collapsed on Thursday evening September 2, 1852, three days after the armed standoff at Dimawe. On the said evening, the Boer Commandant-General, Piet Scholtz, convened a Krijgsraad or War Council to put forward his strategy for a final assault on the Bakwena stronghold at Dithubaruba.