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.
Ubva vhukati ha 1800 vhuhosi vhunzhi ha ma Sotho kha dzi thavha dza western ha thoma u di vhidza tshipida tsha zwigwada zwa vha Tswana hangei Bechuanaland (zwino ndi Botswana).