The festival is meant to appease the heavens to release the rains. It was a spectacle at the Moshupa Kgotla as elderly women carried pots of bojalwa, the traditional beer on their heads for villagers to drink. The women and men carried branches of the sacred tree, Moologa, a symbol of rain making among the Moshupa people. Kgosi Kgabosetso Mosielele II announced at the gathering, which also included school pupils and the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Gladys Kokorwe that the Moologa branches are symbolic of faith and hope that the heavens will bring down the rains. "These branches are an encouragement. They mean we must be a determined people especially in arable farming, because Dikgafela means we are receiving blessings of harvest in our cropping efforts," he said. Mosielele said Dikgafela returns at an opportune time when cultural foods are being recognised for their value.
The women danced as they sang traditional rain songs before the tribal elders. The women's procession then delivered the beer to the courtyard at the other end of the Kgotla. The tribal leaders at the ceremony included Kgosi Seepapitso IV of Bangwaketse, Mosielele, Bakgatla leaders, Kgafela II and his brothers, Kgosi Puso Gaborone of Batlokwa and Kgosi Nyalala Pilane of Bakgatla ba Moruleng I South Africa.
