From the mid 1800s, many Sotho chiefdoms in the western Highveld began to regard themselves as part of a larger Tswana group in the colonial Bechuanaland - now Botswana.
Kusukela exikarhi ka malembe yava 1800s, vuhosi byo tala bya Vasotho abyiri evupela dyambu bya Highveld laha vanga sungula ku titeka vari xiphemu xa ntlawa lowukulu wa Vatswana eka tindzhawu ta khale ka Bechuanaland (leyinga Botswana sweswi).