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.
Go tloga ka bogare jwa dingwaga tsa bo-1800, magosi ale mantsi kwa bophirima jwa Nagagodimo ba ne ba simolola go ikaya fa ele karolo ya setlhopa se se golo sa Batswana kwa Bechuanaland ya bokoloniale (e ga jaana eleng Botswana).